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Epic lays out Google’s alleged “bribe and block” monopoly strategy in trial opening (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IANAL but I think the best outcome they'll get from this is Google needing to tone down the sideloading / 3rd party store warnings. Maybe some way to be a verified publisher that removes the direness of them.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Side loading is potentially dangerous though, so warnings are good. Especially for average person who will attempt side loading not knowing the permissions they are giving to the app. I don't see a problem with the current set up, since even with it people install sketchy apks.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    There's gotta be a way to reduce those warnings though through some sort of trusted developer program.

    Maybe Google can charge for it, but not 30% of all digital in app purchases level.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I don't see a problem with warnings though as someone who does side load and use F-droid to install Foss apps.

    You even got on the Apple side people thinking side loading on iOS is not something they want, since they think it's easy to end up with a malware app when there's plenty of warnings and a function that needs to be enabled on Android.

    I don't see it any differently really than warnings for when installing a program on Windows if it wants admin access at the start. I think Android with the terrible security updates and eol period shorter than iOS devices is hitting a nice balance of warning users of risks of installing unknown apps, but providing the flexibility for people to install whatever they want.

    Most users are idiots.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I think it is dangerous, since even alternative app stores have to be installed via side loading and Google doesn't allow nearly everything onto the play store (nsfw for example)

    So if you want to do nearly anything nsfw with your phone and outside your browser you'll need sideloading.

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  • [+] -3 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The initialism is decades older than any iDevice. Go complain to people on USENET from before you were born.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    While true, it is a pretty bad acronym. IANAL on mobile is more cumbersome to write than, "I'm no lawyer/I'm not a lawyer," and it's safe to say the majority of folks using social media are on mobile.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    If you don’t want to see the initialism anymore, you could submit a PR to your Lemmy app that allows users like yourself to automatically expand it and similar initialisms and other shorthands in other people’s comments (preferably in a slightly different color so that it’s clear what happened when an word is erroneously or incorrectly expanded).

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