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Why the hell should we "mother may I" with Google for running apps on our own phones if it isn't sourced from the Play Store? The "security" rationale is horseshit given just how much malware is readily download able on the Play Store. Google never cleans its own house before going after others.
It's not just the US, story through the grapevine is that Google is under a lot of pressure Asian governments over "online scams". (Allegedly the main actor behind this push is Singapore)
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Wouldn't it be something if, given all the surveillance already in place, law enforcement punished the scammers instead of the innocent?
The scammers are often in a very different country than the victim. Finding the scammer is only 50% of the work, the other 50% is diplomacy and hoping the other side is willing to extradite. This is not made easier if the police force in the scammer's country is extremely corrupt. This is why those scams so often rely on gift cards (or sometimes on cash which a local mule converts to crypto).
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I would bet the amount of people getting scammed is probably higher than those installing NewPipe.
Because we hear so many stories where the scammer directed their target to install an app so that their scam works I know a lot more people that install newpipe than people that got scammed by any means , and have never heard of anyone being asked to install an app by a scammer
When typos are inadvertently funny: > Google’s been working hard to relive everyone’s fears...
I somehow doubt there's a team at Google dedicated to roleplaying the nightmares of all living people :-D
When I saw your user name, I was like "I wonder if that's the C++ s11n guy", and sure enough, confirmed it by viewing your profile.
Glad to see you're still alive and kickin' -- hope you are doing well, despite life's challenges.
Ah yes, having to now send in a government ID to publish apps on the Play Store is a "big nothingburger". Kindly piss off, megacorp bootlicker Stephen Schenck.
> Google's latest concession makes the sideloading controversy a big nothingburger Ah yes, having to now send in a government ID to publish apps on the Play Store is a "big nothingburger". Kindly piss off, megacorp bootlicker Stephen Schenck.
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Given the Epic settlement means Google is allowing alternate app stores, and also the delay only applies for unregistered developers, I'm not certain it won't actually get easier to get folk set up on F-Droid. It still remains to be seen what the actual requirements are, and even if F-Droid could become "approved" that doesn't mean they want to. Time will tell.
"only applies for unregistered developers" but remember the whole point is to allow Google to pull your "registered developer" status on a whim. Something they've shown over and over again they cannot be trusted with