@jeffw to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agoGoogle mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopolyarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square33arrow-up1149arrow-down111cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@ozymandias117linkEnglish14•6 months agoI must have had an extension at the time, but it sounds like F-Droid does automatic updates for anything Android 12+ now? https://f-droid.org/de/2024/02/01/twif.html I guess the nag screen can be scary, though. Good point
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish24•6 months agoThe nag screen is important for a bunch of less technically literate people who would otherwise install malware without thinking twice. Or even once.
minus-square@ozymandias117linkEnglish9•6 months agoI really don’t know how to feel about it The people it’s intended to protect will just click “yes” to anything in my experience I don’t have a statistical analysis of results over a normal distribution of the world population, though
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months agoI feel like Epic wouldn’t be so strident about it without proof that it negatively affecting install rate. But maybe the perception that it affects the rate is sufficient.
minus-square@SMillerNLlinkEnglish2•6 months agoI think it affects install rate by design, which is bad for Epic in this case but good for security in most
I must have had an extension at the time, but it sounds like F-Droid does automatic updates for anything Android 12+ now?
https://f-droid.org/de/2024/02/01/twif.html
I guess the nag screen can be scary, though. Good point
The nag screen is important for a bunch of less technically literate people who would otherwise install malware without thinking twice.
Or even once.
I really don’t know how to feel about it
The people it’s intended to protect will just click “yes” to anything in my experience
I don’t have a statistical analysis of results over a normal distribution of the world population, though
I feel like Epic wouldn’t be so strident about it without proof that it negatively affecting install rate.
But maybe the perception that it affects the rate is sufficient.
I think it affects install rate by design, which is bad for Epic in this case but good for security in most
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