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You pay a cost either way: live in a world with better funded and incentivized scammers and in a community less wealthy by a corresponding amount, or have a slightly less convenient sideloading experience.

I guess if you take the old saying extremely literally, you could conclude that every fool is guaranteed to be parted with 100% of their lifetime available money regardless of what anyone else tries to do to stop that, but that’s not true – and why old sayings (with a respectable 75% of the words right) taken literally aren’t a good basis for decision-making.