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Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:
* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
https://goo.gle/advance-flow
enable developer options
confirm that you are not tricked
restart phone and re-authenticate
wait one day
confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
confirm that you accept the risks
enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
This post is slightly disingenuous. It’s not all side loading. It’s only for unverified apps.
What side loading do you need to do where the app developer hasn’t verified or isn’t using the limited distribution? The sad reality is that the vast majority of what remains are scam apps.
Android is perhaps a victim of its own success here in that it now needs to worry about the old grannies that get pressured into installing scam apps more than a tiny minority of power users.
it’s always “protect old grannies” “protect the children” and never “protect people’s interest” “protect freedom” “protect customers rights”
riddle me this…
It’s not really about protecting anything on the user side, and never has been. Those are just pretenses to their true cause. It’s all always been about censorship, control, and tracking.
What side loading do you need to do where the app developer hasn’t verified or isn’t using the limited distribution?
Well, most of what I install via fdroid?
Only reason for trying to let people jump so many crazy hoops is that they want to secure their app store, control and monetization monopoly.
There is no reason why enabling obscurely hidden dev options and setting the corresponding tick after reading a warning message is not already enough to show that people are aware of what they are doing.
This post is slightly disingenuous. It’s not all side loading. It’s only for unverified apps.
What side loading do you need to do where the app developer hasn’t verified or isn’t using the limited distribution? The sad reality is that the vast majority of what remains are scam apps.
Android is perhaps a victim of its own success here in that it now needs to worry about the old grannies that get pressured into installing scam apps more than a tiny minority of power users.
The hysteria is rife on this subject and it’s exhausting.
Look at me. LOOK at me.
There is no such thing as “side loading”. It is installing apps you want on your phone.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve side loaded apps in the past. I just install the apps I want in a safe way these days.
it’s always “protect old grannies” “protect the children” and never “protect people’s interest” “protect freedom” “protect customers rights” riddle me this…
It’s not really about protecting anything on the user side, and never has been. Those are just pretenses to their true cause. It’s all always been about censorship, control, and tracking.
Open source developers who do not want to register with google, and provide identity verification to google?
Well, most of what I install via fdroid?
Only reason for trying to let people jump so many crazy hoops is that they want to secure their app store, control and monetization monopoly.
There is no reason why enabling obscurely hidden dev options and setting the corresponding tick after reading a warning message is not already enough to show that people are aware of what they are doing.