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Dear Undersigned, I have an APK I would like you to install on your personal phones. No, I won't tell you who I am. Please let me know when you are comfortabl

• bigstrat2003 7mo ago
  Nice strawman. People want the ability to decide for themselves whether or not to install some APK, they are not saying every APK under the sun is trustworthy.
  • dsl 7mo ago
    It is a simplification, not a strawman. If you want to make the decision to install Hay Day, the user should be able to know that it is the Hay Day from Supercell or from Sketchy McMalwareson. 99.9% of apps should have no issue with their name being associated with their work. If you genuinely need to use an anonymously published app, you will still be able to do that as a user.
    • nickorlow 7mo ago
      > If you genuinely need to use an anonymously published app, you will still be able to do that as a user. I'm pretty sure the goal of Google's changes is to make it so you can't
    • NicuCalcea 7mo ago
      Android already tells users when they're installing software from outside the Play Store and shows big scary warnings if Play Protect is turned off. What else do you want? If I want to install something from Sketchy McMalwareson after all that, that's my phone and my business.
• nickorlow 7mo ago
  If I want to run a piece of software on my phone, I shouldn't need to go ask google whether they're cool with it
  • mixologic 7mo ago
    This is already true if you want to run a piece of software on an iPhone, on MacOS, on Windows, on any video game console.
    • nickorlow 7mo ago
      You can run whatever you want on macOS and windows
    • pona-a 7mo ago
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• exe34 7mo ago
  No.
• zem 7mo ago
  sure, point me to the fdroid page for it
  • pona-a 7mo ago
    Or at point me to a git repo.
• jhasse 7mo ago
  Sure thing, as long as it doesn't require any permissions. I have installed multiple apks on my phone from unknown people. Note that Google's requirement is also for completely permissionless apps like games.