Ah, how I love my Jolla C2 with SailfishOS ❤️, and how exited I am to get the new Jolla Phone I pre ordered. ✌️🙏❤️

Keep fighting this shit.

As to the "flow" thing, it's an extra 2 warnings and a mandatory 24 hour waiting period after you select to install apks from unknown sources. It can be permanently enabled, so the 24 hour wait will be a one and done thing if you choose the indefinite option. Googles stated reasoning for this is to prevent non tech people from falling for scam calls or messages using scare tactics like "your bank transfered out your savings" or whatever made to get people to panic and follow whatever commands they're told to do and install before having time to speak to a family member or contact their bank or card company themselves.

For what it's worth, I think that 24 hour part of it would prevent some people from getting scammed. There's a lot of naive people who still fall for stuff like that.

My issue is that I believe this is just a stepping stone to make it even harder or impossible to side load in the future. Like, a year or so later or whenever Google thinks they can get away with it they'll try removing the option to permanently allow side loading. So right now it will just be a few extra clicks and a 24 hour wait one time, but where will they move the bar next?

And it can't be disabled in forks? Or will the google sdk require that from the OS (for apps that use it)?

Google is trash. Next phone will absolutely be one of those upcoming graphene supporting Motorola phones. I'll grab an old phone to test out postmarketos too

Wait that’s not a thing already?

So people can just make scam apps and once you report it to the App Store there is no recourse because even the company doesn’t know who they are?

Everyone freaking out when this is actually something you would want as a consumer. I want to know who the fuck is making my apps, where they are from, and where my data is going. If you don't want this. I am guaranteeing you get viruses and shit all the fucking time.