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Have you ever tried to educate a 70+ year old person on this kind of stuff? Their eyes gloss over and they don't care. I've told my mother not to install random apps on her phone several times yet she still does it. I could probably send her a phishing e-mail right now that 'looks like' it's from me (so long as my name is in the from: field that's enough) and she'd follow the instructions to install a malicious apk too.

"Everyone should just be smarter/more educated" is what I used to think as well. I now fully understand some people have no desire to be educated in any way and it's a net good for society to not have a large % of devices compromised.

by dogmatism29 minutes ago|

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yes, got my father on linux a decade (or more) ago. He's 84. No problem. Most recently we discussed being vigilant against vishing.

Now my in-laws (similar age) one very demented, the other thinks he knows best because he was a chemical engineer...they could use some built in protections

so ultimately I think some default level of "guardrail" is appropriate, but it should have a not too burdensome escape hatch

by ragequittah22 minutes ago|

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>so ultimately I think some default level of "guardrail" is appropriate, but it should have a not too burdensome escape hatch

Which is really exactly what google is implementing here and why I'm so perplexed so many people are upset. You or I or smart parents (my mother has never used a computer in her life and wouldn't want to) will have absolutely no issue sideloading apps after the proposed changes.

by LtWorf40 minutes ago|

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It's full of malicious apps on google play. There are none on f-droid.

The logical conclusion is that fdroid should be allowed and google play banned by default.

by halostatue4 hours ago|

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Because education has worked so well on Windows.

There's not an easy answer, but the non-answer of "people just need to be educated" is trivially dismissed.

by Aachen4 hours ago|

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I'm not sure the situations are comparable when Windows doesn't have this permission system where the apps are still very limited in what they can access unless you grant specific directory access or access to the contact list or such

by wizzwizz41 hours ago|

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It does, but approximately nobody uses it, because Microsoft also tried to apply loads of constraints on what kinds of program could exist when they rolled it out, as part of their "all Windows software should also work on Windows Phone and Xbox" campaign.