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To support sideloading do they have to "Relax control" though? I think the fear is "sideloaded apps can do bad things" and my answer is make the OS better and
by lbotos 4y ago
To support sideloading do they have to "Relax control" though?
I think the fear is "sideloaded apps can do bad things" and my answer is make the OS better and more clearly manage bad things?
What are the bad things we imagine a sideloaded app could do? Like it still has to follow the platform APIs right? It would have to ask for perms? Sure, it could have egregious tracking or spam, or hostile ads, but app store apps already have this??
I'm genuinely asking: What risk am I missing?
- willis936 4y agoThe risk of big companies like Meta requiring users to sideload in order to use their service. To me the answer is obvious: don't use services provided by Meta. They can choose to race to the bottom all they want. I welcome the freedom to use my phone the way I want to. If bad actors choose to misbehave don't blame the medium they're misbehaving on. This line of thinking is similar to negotiating with terrorists.
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