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I agree with what you have said. It's what you mentioned at the end about people judging based on metrics - it should be up to people to judge for themselves, n
by pk97 1y ago
I agree with what you have said. It's what you mentioned at the end about people judging based on metrics - it should be up to people to judge for themselves, not the platform! The platform should present data, not try to sway opinions. Besides the message itself is so hand wavy if I am using the phrase correctly, what is Google trying to convey through the message? If something is a legit scam, they should either not be publishing such apps or be testing and removing them.
I am increasingly convinced they are trying to direct traffic to apps that use their Ads network under the guise of such vaguely-about-security messages.
- p_ing 1y ago> it should be up to people to judge for themselves, not the platform! If you download an App using MSFT Edge on Windows, it will warn you (MoTW). If you download an App using any browser on macOS, it will warn you (also MoTW). But if you grab apps via the App Store, there's no warning. Is that also unfair? While it's been many years since I did hands on end user support, or even worse, support for family friends back in the 9x days, people still have little clue about what they're doing without a big flashing warning sitting in front of them..., which even that sometimes does not work. Even I'll often choose an extension for Firefox that has more installs. If I'm going to get a SAML decoder, I want the least phishy SAML decoder available.
- fluidcruft 1y agoYou get warnings when you install apps from Microsoft Store? Play Store isn't a web browser.
- areyourllySorry 1y agoedge exe/msi downloads, not store. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_of_the_Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_of_the_Web
- fluidcruft 1y agoThat's my point. The apples to apples comparisons are Microsoft Store vs Play Store vs App Store... or Chrome vs Edge vs Safari. NOT Play Store vs Edge and Safari. Play Store is NOT a web browser. It downloads from one place and one place only.
- areyourllySorry 1y agomy bad, i get you now. i still believe warnings should either be everywhere, or nowhere.