Comment by const_cast

3 months ago

The vast, vast majority of android malware that's used is on the Google play store. Because that's where the vast, vast majority of apps are from.

This is a completely made up and hallucinated problem. I will not mince words - this is a blatant attempt at deception.

We do not need to block sideloading to:

1. Stop malicious apps (does nothing)

2. Stop users from side loading

If we want to stop sideloading, we can simply introduce an arduous process to enable side loading. For example - consider turning on ADB. Do we vaporize ADB? No, because that's fucking stupid.

But now when it comes to apps, that little nugget of information is suddenly conveniently not considered.