Dumpster fire companies are the ones he’s targeting because they’re the mostly likely to look for quick and cheap ways to fix the symptoms of their problems, and most likely to want to replace their employees with automations.

Yes you’re right. If they knew, it would likely come with the knowledge that, if someone asks you to do this, you’re probably being scammed.

That’s what makes them most vulnerable to these kinds of scams.

Most people don’t know what a bootloader is. They still turn their devices on and off every day.

This whole conversation is about adding obstacles to prevent non technical users from doing things they don’t fully understand.

No, the certificate can be invalidated preventing future installations for other users. If you already have it you’re SOOL

Because it can be invalidated. That’s the difference.

It’s absolutely not foolproof, but nothing is. Most actions corps take for this stuff only slows down the spread. Hackers and bad actors innovate way faster than companies can keep up with. So companies cast a wide net with their solutions. And the cycle continues.

The vast majority of malware isn’t delivered via play store because of the existing measures and protections they have. Same reason you see very little app-store-based malware on iOS. DISCLAIMER: YES MALWARE EXISTS ON APPLE HARDWARE PLEASE DON’T SHOUT AT ME. Talking specifically about anything installed via first party stores on both platforms.

Their main issue is this: dumb people install apks from spurious website and infect their phones. The least controllable and most pervasive factor here is the intelligence and knowledge of the user which cannot be controlled for by Google. So by eliminating the ability to exploit this entirely, it will eliminate that specific vector.

It’s a sledgehammer solution that naturally comes with many downsides like disrupting intelligent and knowledgeable users that just want to hack around with FOSS and such.

Google is relying on It being too expensive for malware creators to have to guide each individual user through adb installation and usage process just to get access to their phone. Most scammers only do that level of interaction to extract actual cash/gift cards from the target.

I am personally and directly affected by their decision in many negative ways, but I’m not so dense as to not understand why they’re doing it.

/corpodronespeak

EDIT: bots help Xitter maintain inflated usage figures which justify people’s jobs, share prices, etc. Bots are a feature, not a bug.

But have you considered that Jeff needs another few billies?

In my language we also have a saying: “nyeeerrrrrrr”

I’ve been using Metube but it’s pretty basic. Might give this a shot.

Same. I didn’t realise there was anything wrong with it tbh

My favourite is forgetting that someone died and then finding out and having to grumble about it all over again.

This seems to be a frequent occurrence for those who died during (but usually not from) COVID due to the time warp.

I buy vinyls and merch. It doesn’t entirely cut out the middleman but it’s less morally bankrupt than giving it to record labels

I’m scared OP thinks people don’t change

Yeah but I used to be a piece of shit

Someone hasn’t tried sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s

Wanker, n. CS Lewis

Ex: Shut up Lewis you massive wanker

IoT sort-of-kind-of replaced CE

The people who give a shit: former windows CE devs

I did this last night!

But I feel so guilty to my favourite 4-hour retrospective youtuber…

[Meme nullification]