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Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 4 points 3 hours ago

Wow, a real win here...

Have to enable developer mode, have a miniature interview, restart and reauthenticate on my device, THEN still have to wait an entire day just to install an app that Google hasn't approved.

That's not just friction, that's a brick wall!

Google can get stuffed if they expect me to believe that's for user safety, considering the amount of blatant malware and adware is already on the Playstore, threatening their user's device safety.