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I'd be interested in seeing a statistic of how much this reduces the impact of intentionally malicious apps. I know it's not the real motivation, but still.
I'm sure it's a non-zero effect.
It'll also paint targets on the backs of people who are using newpipe, greyjay, and pipepipe. I'll be interesting to see if they try to coorelate people running adblock as pirates and start dumping google accounts. You could run those apps logged out prior and remain anonymous. It's very likely package installed will rat you out now.
It's possible that part of why those attacks don't really happen is precisely because it's already so controlled. That said, I still think this is BS. Don't mistake me as defending Google here.
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Confirm with biometrics... WTF?!
People should have the universal right to live a cellphone-free life. In my country, it is assumed that everyone uses an iPhone or a Google Android phone as if it was part of your own self.
I'm confused by this comment. The outrage is that if you want to use your phone, in the modern smartphone sense of the word which uses apps, then you have to do so by Google's rules which excludes a lot of apps you might want to run, or jump through ridiculous hoops apparently including biometrics to do so with your own device. That's terrible, but, this particular outrage is quite separate to one's ability to live a cellphone free life. I'm not going to pretend like that's not increasingly unfeasible, but this issue with identified developers doesn't have much to do with it since it's only an issue for you if you're even using a phone in the first place and then it just makes using it a much shittier time then it ought to be, it doesn't lessen or increase the dependency upon phones in general.
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Wouldn't that just mean enter your lock code if you don't have thumbprint lock enabled?
I mean, getting verified as a developer is a similar pain in the ass in other ecosystems. I recently got an LG smart TV and the developer mode there automatically runs out and deletes all unofficial apps after 9999h if you don't manually go into the developer app and extend the time.
My hot take is that you shouldn't have to claim that you're a developer to sideload content. It should be allowed for normal users 🤷
Still worth it for revanced!
With these steps, you might as well unlock your bootloader. WTF.
Don't be cartoonishly evil?
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