• brax@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    I hope this means the resurgence of cheap flip phones. I have no use for a pocket computer that I can’t use like a computer. I went with Android because iOS was useless, and now Android is about to be made equally useless.

    Will be interesting to see how many people move over to iOS now that Google is trashing Android’s redeeming feature.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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      10 hours ago

      I’ve enabled the advanced protection and it’s so easy to turn off to install a single app and turn back on but I haven’t seen it as an issue. Is there something new now? Because I’m not seeing an issue here.

      • ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 hours ago

        Yes they are, for all intents and purposes, making it impossible to turn off advanced protection. The only way to install unverified apps will be via developer mode and if you turn that on a bunch of apps refuse to run until you turn it back off

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          5 hours ago

          Well fuck that then. I guess I’m going to have to get a graphene OS put on this mother fucker.

          That’s really too bad because I did appreciate all the other features of advanced protection except for that.

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          5 hours ago

          Presumably, rooted users/custom ROMs should be able to get around this, but how many developers are going to continue to support development and/or release .apk files if it’s only a tiny subset of the userbase they can reach?