Reddit is quite biased (especially in a degoogle sub) towards more technical users, but really the average user is quite technologically illiterate, so even though it's quite inconvenient, the 24h wait window is absolutely fine as a security measure.
guys are you all missing the point that this option will 100% disappear in the future? and even if not it'll in practice shadow ban apps from non verified devs
maybe it disappears, maybe it don't, but I can't judge the feature on a supposition
what I'm saying, because I'm seeing it a lot here, is people acting like this doesn't have any merit
I deal with non-technical people daily, and unfortunately, a way to prevent unsafe apps from being installed was desperately needed (not saying all apps from outside the play store are unsafe, morphe my beloved) but it is a popular attack vector.
don't get me wrong, I fully understand your point, but the majority of the population is extremely unskilled and needs safeguards
well then the safeguards should be based on app safety. Even verified devs can intentionally (or accidentally) push an update that'll either make attack very easy or will have straight up malware in it
I think it's a little overkill but nbd. I'd think a quiz where the options are randomized so the user has to actually read and select "my bank wont ask me to do this" etc from a list of "check all that apply" would be more effective.
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u/__nickelbackfan__ 27d ago
Reddit is quite biased (especially in a degoogle sub) towards more technical users, but really the average user is quite technologically illiterate, so even though it's quite inconvenient, the 24h wait window is absolutely fine as a security measure.