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Ive heard plenty of examples of elderly people getting conned into buying ITunes gift cards to pay their "delinquent taxes" but I find the thought of trying to explain the process of activating developer mode, navigating to some shady website, downloading an apk, finding the download folder, and then installing some bootleg app to a confused elderly person, over the phone on the very device they want you to do this on to be quite comical. I can't see many of these people completing even step one of that process.
I'm sure there are malicious apps to sideload out there, but those are also all over the PlayStore too, so I don't see what this change really fixes.
I can't even walk 40 years old through installing a fucking authenticator over the phone THROUGH THE APP STORE. This is such a fucking insanely unnecessary and inefficient way to scam lmao
all they have to do now is press a single link to install a scam apk.