• Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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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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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months ago

        No, but you made it sound like “Android has a terrible experience side-loading” when what you should have said was “I had a bad experience side-loading on Android”, your experience is not the norm and if you’re going to claim that it is I can easily claim mine is as well.

        Having to go through 4 menus to turn something off that hasn’t triggered once in 10+ years seems acceptable. Not sure why you’re getting that amount of popups, but it either has something to do with your phone, the app, or something else specific to you. This is not a common issue, I have side-loaded a bunch of things for over a decade, worked in android apps (in fact I’m currently compiling and installing an app almost daily), and worked with several people and several phones and have never seen that popup once, not saying that you’re not seeing it, not saying that you’re not seeing it a lot, not invalidating your experience, just pointing out that it’s not common, so when you make a broad statement like:

        google goes out of it’s way to throw popups to users that “it’s untrusted” “it’s unsafe” etc. etc…

        You can expect the remaining 99% of users who are not affected by whatever weird combination of factors you have that triggers this will reply that it’s not common.