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Google’s big Android sideloading crackdown has a 24-hour catch – how the new limits work (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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Sideloading Android apps will become such a hassle that the practice will effectively die.

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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

the company’s analysis found sideloading is responsible for “50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.”

Yeaah, sure...

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 17 points 4 days ago

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I never heard of grandmas side loading apps... but plenty clicking a link to the playstore and getting all kinds of garbage... 🤔

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

All adware bullshit I cleaned from my mom's and relatives' phones was from the play store

[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

I just got a new phone recently. Android installes games on your new phone like crazy. It's not always the users fault now.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

It really depends on how "malware" is defined.

Also, the sentence is either wrong or outright malicious. "Sideloading is responsible for ... from internet-sideloaded sources..."