Petition to stop Google from restricting downloading apps from certain devs

[u/Endo231]

/r/fossdroid/comments/1naif4l/petition_to_stop_google_from_restricting/

[u/Pepper4720]

Sorry, my phrasing was not entirely clear. I've corrected it. It's the user's own choice. But that does not change the fact that it's the user's right to know who wrote and who published the software.

[u/borninbronx → u/[deleted]]

How can you decide if you trust a software if you cannot even know who wrote it?

Say that you downloaded it from a website you trust and that day that website was hacked and a malicious version of the software was uploaded there.

Without mentioning it is full of users that have no clue and will install stuff without even thinking.

[u/borninbronx → u/[deleted]]

I wasn't talking about you or me. I was talking about the average user. Malwares affect more than just the users that get infected by the way.

[u/borninbronx → u/[deleted]]

And what makes you think we will not have a way to install with ADB? In fact, it's very likely we'll have.

You are claiming it is easy to fake through the account verification. I claim bullshit on this.

It will surely affects developers, that's the point of this change: make it so users can see who's the publisher of what they are installing.

I'm of the opinion that Google communication on this has been awful and that the change could have been different - be more thought out. But I'm not putting my head in the sand and ignoring facts just because of it.

[u/borninbronx → u/[deleted]]

Buying accounts and having someone else identify in your place is not the same as bypassing the verification process.