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Epic lays out Google’s alleged “bribe and block” monopoly strategy in trial opening
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.