Technology

They never specified who’s security…

they want to improve thier AI and datamining capabilities.

Found the Rossman subrsciber. 📎

Leaving ADB open to unverified apps is more than I was expecting. ADB is reasonably straightforward to use even without actually being an Android developer.

There was never any way they'd integrate it to play protect and still allow play protect to be disabled. I prefer this to being required to use play protect personally, though the services do seem somewhat redundant. Presumably the whole point of doing this is to create an Apple style walled garden (which is of course very profitable). Google likely doesn't want to fully lock it down and risk legal trouble, they just need to make it difficult enough that the masses don't bother installing unapproved apps that may not act in Google's interests.

I still hope the EU takes legal action against this anyway.

Or anyone with a computer who installs ADB. You don't have to be a developer.

And very annoying too since some government apps don't like it when you have developer mode on.

Because it was never actually about security to begin with. That's obviously BS. Google just wants control.

Probably because they want to target software that cracks theirs to avoid ads, like ReVanced.

Like "Jaywalking", suddenly, walking is no longer the norm, but the car is preferred. The victims are seen as perpetrators.

It is, because it's actually the term that defines the process of transferring files not from an external networked device - downloading - or to an external networked device - uploading - but between two local devices - sideloading.

It's over two decades old, you downloaded an mp3 from kazaa, and then sideloaded it to your player.

For android apps, I believe the term originates from the method of using ADB to directly write the app to the phone memory, the command of which is "adb sideload filename"

I heard of shizuku before how does it work? Does it need root?

The security of their bank balance.