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You didn't ask my main question which was: What do you mean by "safely" here? > 99% of the users do not know what is actually trusted or not. Before it was on

You didn't ask my main question which was: What do you mean by "safely" here? > 99% of the users do not know what is actually trusted or not. Before it was only 0.01% of users know what they're doing and now it's 99% of the users do not know if it's actually trusted or not, that's a 100x difference, I don't suppose you have a source on any of these numbers? Your arguments are all hypothetical, yet we don't have to be as people literally download much of their software on PCs today outside of the Microsoft store and most users manage fine. Other mechanisms have been put in place at multiple levels (the search engine, the browser, and the OS) to make it safer for users, and the majority of those users don't get confused about trusted sources.

nicce 4y ago
> You didn't ask my main question which was: What do you mean by "safely" here? I thought I made it clear at least on the last phrase. ”Safely” simply means that software is what it is supposed to be. My arguments are no hypothetical. Android used to be like that in early days, if you followed infosec in that time. It was common to downlod .apks from third parties and phones were full of malwares. Android does not have same mechanisms like PC. It does not make signature checks for trusted sources or have Windows Defender build-in. Two primary reasons why it is safer to download arbitrary files in these days. MacOS has similar checks.