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Seems like a very reasonable compromise. What's the catch?
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 7mo ago
Seems like a very reasonable compromise. What's the catch?
- hermanzegerman 7mo agoThat I have to wait 24 Hours on my own device to install software?
- fsh 7mo agoI don't find it reasonable that Google wants to make me wait 24h to install software on a device I own.
- ygjb 7mo agoMeh. I get the annoyance, but it's a one time cost for a small subset of their users. I would prefer if there was a flow during device setup that allowed you to opt into developer mode (with all the attendant big scary warnings), but it's a pretty reasonable balance for the vast majority of their users. (I suspect the number of scammers that are able to get a victim to buy a whole new device and onboard it is probably very low).
- izacus 7mo agoNote that adb won't have the 24 hour cooldown if you're in such a hurry.
- jcul 7mo agoGood point, having a once off advanced option to completely bypass this at device setup would be good. Also, other commenters have mentioned that adb is unaffected by this which makes it seem like less of a problem, to me at least. Still inconvenient that even if you adb install fdroid you can't install apps directly from it.
- barnacs 7mo agoGet with the newspeak, it's called "sideloading" now and your corporate overlords get to dictate the terms.
- volkercraig 7mo agoThey'll just remove the "Advanced" ability in a few years once they've frog boiled people into jumping through hoops to use their phone the way they want.
- janice1999 7mo agoDevelopers, including non-US citizens, are forced to give Google their government ID to distribute apps. This enables Google to track and censor projects, like NewPipe, an alternative open source Youtube frontend, by revoking signing permissions for developers.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 7mo agoI don't see that on the page
- janice1999 7mo agoThey already announced it. Here they only mention the special case where it does not apply: > In addition to the advanced flow we’re building free, limited distribution accounts for students and hobbyists. This allows you to share apps with a small group (up to 20 devices) without needing to provide a government-issued ID or pay a registration fee. i.e. Government-issued ID and fees are needed for more than 20 devices, e,g, every app on F-Droid
- ai-inquisitor 7mo agoEnforcement of the device restriction would also mean they also are collecting information from your device about the app.
- Evidlo 7mo agoIsn't this a huge loophole? Couldn't a scammer just make many variants of their malware?
- Aachen 7mo agoIf there were a reliable way of identifying people making multiple accounts, it wouldn't be anonymous now would it? This not a loophole but inherent to an anonymous system The trouble is, the accounts aren't meant to be anonymous. Pseudonymous at best, depending also on the country (a lot of places require government ID before you can assign a phone number, or have a central government querying system for mapping IP addresses and timestamp to the name and address of the subscriber that used it at the time). It's not like they let you create infinite Google accounts without supplying an infinite amount of fresh phone numbers or IP addresses. You also agree to the general Google privacy policy, which allows them to do anything for any purpose last I checked (a few years ago) unless you're a business customer (but then you've got a payment method in use, and they don't accept cash in the mail), such as fingerprinting as part of reCaptcha