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Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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Taking Google at their word for a moment, it's far too easy to scam the clueless masses into selecting the first one. Might work okay if it's strictly an ADB command, tho.
And why should we do that?
I'm inclined to think that's not the job of an OS vendor to prevent. Sure, put a warning label on it, but it's the user's device; once they say they know what they're doing, that should be that.
The implication here is, if they implement this, is that they volunteer to assume liability, should e.g., your bank account be drained despite undergoing their forced strict lockdown on paid and owned devices.
Fat chance, because laws are meaningless to crime syndicates
It might be a reasonable trade for users to make if Google assumed liability. In fact, that would be an interesting way to implement laws to discourage practices like these.
If someone can be socially engineered into disabling security mechanisms, then that should just be their fate. There's no sense in fucking everyone else in order to protect them.
but they could make it be google play or samsung store only as the default as a compromise
That would just continue to ensure lock-in, and at least the EU would never go for that (& neither would I). Sideloading should still be allowed.
Google's Play Store security has never been all that stellar, anyway.