• Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yup, I have F-Droid on mine, so it seems very ridiculous that this lawsuit was allowed to continue.

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        11 months ago

        Nah, google goes out of it’s way to throw popups to users that “it’s untrusted” “it’s unsafe” etc. etc… When you sideload things. Going even so far as to hide the continue button under drop downs to skip their shit.

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          11 months ago

          It’s just once when you’re installing the thing, and considering how idiotic most users are the warnings are actually warranted in most cases.

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            11 months ago

            And after updates… and sometimes mysteriously out of nowhere…

            I get the stupid notice once a month or so. Especially the “This app isn’t scanned by the play store! Please send us a copy”

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              11 months ago

              I have never seen that. I get one popup saying that installing things from outside the store is not allowed, once you allow the app to do so, e.g. chrome if you’re downloading an APK from it, I only get a confirmation to install and that’s it. It never again bothers me.

              Are you using some non-default android, e.g. Samsung phone? If so your problem is with Samsung, not with Google. I have a Motorola and a Pixel, both behave the same.

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                11 months ago

                Are you using some non-default android, e.g. Samsung phone? If so your problem is with Samsung, not with Google. I have a Motorola and a Pixel, both behave the same.

                https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/245010/google-play-protect-shows-warning-when-installing-an-apk

                This prompt for PLAY PROTECT, has nothing to do with the manufacturer of your device. As long as google play is installed you will get this notice for apps that it wants to scan, without your permission. But I will say it’s likely I get this prompt more often because of revanced, which gets compiled on my phone directly.

                Notice that there’s no “Never send unknown apps”. It’s all dark patterns to stop people from using other sources.

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                  11 months ago

                  First of all in my 10+ years of using Android, sideloading things, including my own compiled programs I have not once seen that popup.

                  Secondly, from the link you provided here’s how to “Never send unknown apps”:

                  Send unknown apps to Google If you choose to install apps from unknown sources outside of the Google Play Store, turning on the “Improve harmful app detection” setting will allow Google Play Protect to send unknown apps to Google to protect you from harmful apps.

                  Open the Google Play Store app Google Play.

                  At the top right, tap the profile icon.

                  Tap Play Protect and then Settings.

                  Turn Improve harmful app detection on or off.

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                    Congrats? You’ve never seen it… So? That somehow invalidates my experience?

                    So you don’t see the problem with have to jump through literally 4 menus worth of stuff to turn off something that could simply be on the prompt itself? That’s the whole point. That google has made it hostile to sideload. Most users would be concerned about the APK, even if sourced from a legitimate place after seeing that prompt. It’s literally a dark pattern. But here we are… people like you for some ungodly reason defending the practice.