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Android is making it harder to install unverified APKs (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by kamayatu24@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world
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Starting in August, installing APKs from unverified developers will require a new procedure called Advanced Flow. It involves enabling developer mode, rebooting the device, and waiting 24 hours with biometric verification.

After that, you choose: allow the APK installation for 7 days or indefinitely. The procedure is a one-time process and applies to all versions of Android.

Will the 24-hour wait stop you from installing APKs outside the store?

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[-] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's nice that an American company will enforce a 24-hour cooling-off period for the installation of a few 1s and 0s on a device I already own.

They wouldn't do this for the purchase of a firearm.

This biting satirical take is brought to you by a disillusioned Android user seriously thinking about switching to an iPhone. If a walled garden is inevitable I might as well go where most stuff gets developed for first.

[-] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

The comment about the firearm comparison really got me. That is so fucking true.

[-] teft@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

They wouldn’t do this for the purchase of a firearm.

A little more than 1/4 of states (14) have a mandatory waiting period for buying guns ranging from 3 days to 30 days.

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's still 36 states too many without.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago

If only the procedure was the same for their own store.. there's soo much crappy adware there.

[-] Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

My mom's phone is filled with so much adware from the damn sponsored apps in Googleplay she can barely use the phone unless I wipe it every three months.

When I checked the security, it was still set to not allow unverified apps and yet...

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago

If Google actually cared about security they ought to stop Samsung from automatically installing TEMU and Candy Crush in their random "updates". It installs that shit whether or not you remove the check marks. The "updates" contain no further updates.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

My entire job relies on an app not on the Play Store. I wonder how this change is going to affect business. They're hiring a lot of people like they either have a backup plan or no idea what's coming.

My boss is Gen Z and as such she's tech illiterate, so she doesn't really understand what I'm trying to say when I voice my concerns.

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

God I'm such a millennial because I never thought I'd read the sentence "she's gen Z and as such she's tech illiterate." I always figured the next couple generations would just experiment and figure shit out like we did but, phones became the default. Crazy.

[-] Pauce@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

While there is definitely an oddly surprising amount of z'ers who seem to barely get tech, I would like to biasedly add that the older of us are largely tech literate, of course exceptions apply. We grew up with computers in the home and at the very least know our way around a file browser. But some folks just a few years under me don't have any other tech then there phones and don't seem to care or even think about pc's.

Got a new job recently and the other person training with me didn't own any kind of pc and said that she didn't like them. It was weird to me I kept asking her like but what about when you need one and it didn't seem that she ever did. As a tech addled fiend I can't fully comprehend this, I can only get by with my phone for so long on certain tasks before I put it down and pull out my computer. But to each their own I guess?

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