Google's big Android sideloading crackdown has a 24-hour catch - how the new limits work - ZDNET
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Sideloading Android apps will become such a hassle that the practice will effectively die.

Sideloading Android apps will become such a hassle that the practice will effectively die.

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
    25·
    15 hours ago

    the company’s analysis found sideloading is responsible for “50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.”

    Yeaah, sure…

    • piccolo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      I never heard of grandmas side loading apps… but plenty clicking a link to the playstore and getting all kinds of garbage… 🤔

      • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        All adware bullshit I cleaned from my mom’s and relatives’ phones was from the play store

        • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          10 hours ago

          I just got a new phone recently. Android installes games on your new phone like crazy. It’s not always the users fault now.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      It really depends on how “malware” is defined.

      Also, the sentence is either wrong or outright malicious. “Sideloading is responsible for … from internet-sideloaded sources…”