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Comment by const_cast

20 days 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.