Can’t speak to other Android versions but mine just asks something along the line of “Do you want to allow this app to install other apps?”. There’s not really any mention of potentially malicious software. So I don’t doubt some old people are being told by scammers to install some scammy app.
But the solution is not to create more “trusted” nonsense, it’s to improve the disclosures.
Except the scammers have no problems getting apps approved by google. A lot of scams will use something like anydesk or teamviewer. While im sure it can happen, ive never in all of scambaiting seen a scammer resort to needing to sideload anything.
Wasn’t one of Epic’s wins vs Google that the sideloading wording was malicious which made people scared of sideloading normal apps, so they made it little less malicious
Can’t speak to other Android versions but mine just asks something along the line of “Do you want to allow this app to install other apps?”. There’s not really any mention of potentially malicious software. So I don’t doubt some old people are being told by scammers to install some scammy app.
But the solution is not to create more “trusted” nonsense, it’s to improve the disclosures.
Except the scammers have no problems getting apps approved by google. A lot of scams will use something like anydesk or teamviewer. While im sure it can happen, ive never in all of scambaiting seen a scammer resort to needing to sideload anything.
Wasn’t one of Epic’s wins vs Google that the sideloading wording was malicious which made people scared of sideloading normal apps, so they made it little less malicious
Never heard about that