Comment by TeMPOraL

8 hours ago

> All of this to get custom fonts in their messaging app or some other little feature they saw on someone’s phone.

Yes, and this is normal and right. They're expressing curiosity, and in the process also actually exercising ownership of their devices.

It's how most of us here learned computers, too.

The only problem in this picture, really, is that we've allowed - or even helped - software and platform vendors to disempower regular users so much that "to get custom fonts in their messaging app" they need to do something high-risk.

Most of what regular people try to do is like this anyway - something that should be a basic functionality, that used to be basic functionality, but has been taken away from users for their "safety" or because "sekhurity" or such.