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Yeah for every HN user complaining about it there are hundreds of people sideloading apps (not realizing what they're doing - under promise of loans or other ad
by raverbashing 9mo ago
Yeah for every HN user complaining about it there are hundreds of people sideloading apps (not realizing what they're doing - under promise of loans or other advantages) and then getting their phone ransomed
- direwolf20 9mo agoFor every person getting ransomed by a sideloaded app there are ten people getting ransomed by apps they installed from the Play Store.
- raverbashing 9mo agoAnd two wrongs don't make a right
- direwolf20 9mo agoIf we ban sideloaded apps under this reasoning, we have to ban the Play Store as well, ten times more urgently.
- mikkupikku 9mo agoAnd for every person getting scammed by an app from any source, there are a thousand people getting scammed just through phonecalls. Scam apps isn't a real problem at scale, it's a bunch of fear mongering.