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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

honestly I think the complaint about there being no way for other app stores to become "authorized sources" is valid

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Epic Games

...it rings a bell, but I'm too busy worrying about people who aren't corpo shitheads trying to convince the market they can offer something different

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Epic are the ones with the resources to sue, but a favorable decision would almost certainly also apply to third party repos such as https://f-droid.org/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Samsung user.

Spotted the inclusion of Auto Blocker in the last system update.

The App can be disabled, or as I did, adb uninstalled.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When did this become a thing? I sideload apps all the time with no issues.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Afaik new feature in android 15

Edit: Nvm, just read the article, apparently a feature in latest OneUI. So unless you use Samsung you wouldn't know it. That aside, with android 15 you will get some sort of "feature" which discourages sideloading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well my Z Fold 3 stopped updating after Android 14, so I guess I need to make this phone last as long as humanly possible cause this is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Lol same thought. I just got a new phone which came with Android 14 and I'm not updating this device.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate it, my shitty xiaomi gives me a 10 second cooldown before letting me install one 😀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unrelated but, amazing pfp mate.

Tux do the speen haha, he so silly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's cool the first couple times but I wish there was a lemmy setting to disable it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ay thx 😎

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How about all app stores (including Play Store and Samung own app store) not installed as system apps and show warnings equally when user install something new?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you can get this on something like graphene os. You can choose to install google play, or not to. and use any other app store like android and they all have the same permissions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ain't google play assumes it always installed as system app and graphene os team had to build a sandbox around it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Google play just has way too many permissions to the sandbox keeps it contained

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Instead of sandboxing I would much rather it drops all those permissions

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine a case similar to what we had about the default web browser on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Stop, I've got insomnia and don't wanna get too excited 🀀