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direwolf20
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Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow i...
For every person getting ransomed by a sideloaded app there are ten people getting ransomed by apps they installed from the Play Store.
mikkupikku
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And for every person getting scammed by an app from any source, there are a thousand people getting scammed just through phonecalls. Scam apps isn't a real problem at scale, it's a bunch of fear mongering.
raverbashing
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And two wrongs don't make a right
direwolf20
3 months ago
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If we ban sideloaded apps under this reasoning, we have to ban the Play Store as well, ten times more urgently.
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