• jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
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    27 days ago

    Manufactured consent strategy to build support for the Google Play Store power grab? Or real risk?

    My mother can barely tell the difference between an email and a web browser page… every pop-up warning is indistinguishable from every other in her mind… I am constantly having to remove Google Play apps that capture her I/O… no GitHub needed. But Google is pushing the idea that if only they controlled the whole experience that life would be so much better.

    https://keepandroidopen.org/cta/

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    27 days ago

    Who’s out here updating their banking apps via Github? This would require sideloading, something the average person is not smart enough to do without help. Weird vector of attack, but okay.