If they did that, every influencer would make youtube videos and tik toks telling people how they should enable that setting to make their phone better or more powerful "for free", and everyone would just do it, especially the people who really shouldn't because they don't know any better.
reply> everyone would just do it
replyWouldn't it be better to solve that with education? Also MacOS gives you a warning when you're opening something not vetted by them.
The idea that it's some higher authorities responsibility to keep us safe quickly slides into losing freedoms we care about.
Would you also like all websites to be ISP-approved?
We could also have all social media filtered through LLM guards to keep us safe?
Maybe link our IDs to our online identity to protect our kids.
Yep. Scammers have managed to get people to install profiles on their devices so they can run non-appstore approved scam apps.
replyOne of the first things help desk scammers do is convince people to turn off antivirus and/or Windows Defender on their computers.
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