Comment by yaro330
4 days ago
You live in a bubble. The roles are inversed. This is "ruining" Android for the 0.001% of power users that install .apk files and improving it for the huge chunk of population that are still getting hit by malicious ads that try to push app installs onto you.
Who is hosting these ads? Might it be Google?
No real counter argument? Do better HN
Google is using scams as an argument for dismantling ownership and restricting the owner of a device from installing software of their own choice on their own device.
Yet they host the very ads that are part of these scams and profit from them. If Google wanted and actually cared about scams they would stop hosting these scam ads en mass.
It clearly is a pretense. This is not about scams and it will not stop with a ridiculous 24h waiting period to enable installing software. They will remove the option altogether.
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So then let it be such that only 0.001% of people will use smartphones.