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post-it | 5 days ago

This is the status quo. APK installation is disabled by default, and there is a warning when you go to enable it.

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krinchan|4 days ago

It's not just the status quo, it's a nightmare to enable. Somehow between Google Play Advanced Protection and Google Account Advanced Protection I have to resort to several reboots and adb + USB debugging sideload to get an app loaded. @.@

scoofy|5 days ago

The point is "a warning" is not enough to communicate to people the gravity of what they are doing.

It is not enough to write "be careful" on a bag you get from a pharmacy... certain medications require you to both have a prescription, and also to have a conversation with a pharmacist because of how dangerous the decisions the consumer makes can be.

Normal human beings can be very dumb. It's entirely reasonable to expect society to try to protect them at some level.

progbits|5 days ago

OK so make the warning more annoying. Have a security quiz. Cooldown period of one day to enable. Require unlock via adb connected to laptop.

There are alternative solutions if the true goal is maintaining user freedom while protecting dumb users. But that is not the true goal of the upcoming changes.

plst|5 days ago

Sure, but I don't think decreasing chances of scam-by-app on Android by some minuscule amount is in any way comparable to prescription drugs.