• 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
  • kurwa@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Are there even any stats on phone scammers doing this? I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more malicious google play store apps than apps from 3rd party places trying to do this sort of attack.

    If anything scammers would just get people to plug their phone into their computers.

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      3 days ago

      Are there even any stats on phone scammers doing this?

      I don’t necessarily know about stats. As I understand it, there is some governmental pressure to address the situation, hence why the program is being rolled out in specific markets before the global rollout.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more malicious google play store apps than apps from 3rd party places trying to do this sort of attack.

      Probably, given that the overwhelming majority of installs happening through the Play Store. Google have some control in this surface though - they can unlist malicious apps and close down their developer accounts. Potentially even take legal action, given that developer accounts require ID these days.

      If anything scammers would just get people to plug their phone into their computers.

      If a scammer manages to coach someone to install adb, then I’m impressed.