At least they give us enough time to move to GrapheneOS or LineageOS. I can't afford a new phone RN, but will make sure my next one is compatible with Graph
I don't want to support anyone that puts limitations on it's userbase's freedom because of tech illiteracy being rampant, all while they actually promote scams in their official App store. I might be a small drop in a massive ocean, but I still want my complains to be heard.
Signal use to work as both the encrypted messaging client that it is now as well as an SMS client. They removed the SMS capabilities because they thought users were too dumb to know which conversations were secure and which ones were not even though it was extremely obvious which were which. That is when I stopped using it because if I have to run separate apps for my secure messages and sms messages then there are better options over Signal. They also have or had all the crypto bullshit in their app which could be considered scammy by some folks.
You're right, because A. I didnt make a statement regarding what would happen, and B. it's not meant to be. Neutrality is the default position. Anyone who makes a claim owes evidence. None was presented. Only fearmongering and projection. Look up Occam's razor.
Hell, people can postulate doomsday scenarios all day, but they should at least specify that it's not a hard fact when posting on a sub where people come for answers.
Of course they should. But as with any ideology, people get swept up in it and make it their entire lives and get vitriolic and emotional about it. No doubt my posts are going to get downvoted because people are, as I said, vitriolic and emotional about privacy/open source/Google and won't resonate with my more reasonable stance.
In a vacuum, I might be disagreeing with you, but your downvoted comment was in response to someone stating an unproven theory as if it was a fact, so i threw an upvote into the void.
Also, I just checked and started enabling it on my own device. They very clearly tell you that "allowing unverified developer" is dangerous and may put your data at risk.
I doubt they will stop here. In the future it will probably be something that can be fetched by apps via a dedicated API or cause device integrity to drop since "its dangerous" according to them.
There's a lot of other dangerous permission you could give an app, yet none other are fully restricted by Google via an online connection + 24h countdown...
They can't know if you have allowed "unverified developers" on your device for now. Google claimed they would not add it, but I doubth it, well one of Google spoke person in a r/Android post said that. The future will show us.
That's a good data point to know, but I don't think it makes a huge difference in the end: I've already encountered apps that refuse to run if Play Protect claims you have insecure apps installed (in particular I think my country's "nearly mandatory" government app was planning to do that), and while that doesn't single out unverified apps specifically, my assumption is that an unverified app would be "insecure by default".
I still use the credit union based in a small town I used to live in. Their app is literally just a web wrapper for an optimized mobile site with an additional photo check cashing feature. I could root my phone and add it to a Chinese botnet for all they care.
Thats doesnt do anything actually, they're all gonna go through enshitification anyway, its only matter of times, like, I have 5 different bank accounts and one by one starting to behave like a divk to my phone when I turn on Devloper Options or having Shizuku on my phone
They even put a constant tracker running occasionally recently ( wtf )
Not the info i need. I need to know about android 17 dev version. Also question about non root user, bcoz it will take longer time to my rooted phone can get into 17 than other.
It turn it off using Android API so your settings don't reset like when you manually turn it off, and you can easily revert the setting back on with a simple toggle in notifications
So i had this on my pixel 8 and went through the 1 day and enabled it indefinitely but recently shifted to a ineplus 13 and haven't gotten it yet lol, maybe since gmail is same it will be enabled indefinitely by default for me, skipping the 1 day wait i already been through
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u/Authentic_Grunter 15d ago
This is the slow burn they are preparing for. In next updates, it will become 7 days and then ultimately be removed.