• ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    I’ve enabled the advanced protection and it’s so easy to turn off to install a single app and turn back on but I haven’t seen it as an issue. Is there something new now? Because I’m not seeing an issue here.

    • ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Yes they are, for all intents and purposes, making it impossible to turn off advanced protection. The only way to install unverified apps will be via developer mode and if you turn that on a bunch of apps refuse to run until you turn it back off

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        1 day ago

        The only way to install unverified apps will be via developer mode and if you turn that on a bunch of apps refuse to run until you turn it back off.

        Wait, when did this become a thing? I’ve had developer mode turned on on my phone for ages without any issues.

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          16 hours ago

          Not sure when exactly but some banking apps in the UK refuse to run if they detect developer mode is enabled and, given the general trend towards locking everything down, I expect many other mainstream apps to enforce these checks at some point.

          I guess one could run two phones, an official phone for banking etc and another one with dev mode for pissing around but these rules will reduce the number of people who install unverified apps to a very small number

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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        2 days ago

        Well fuck that then. I guess I’m going to have to get a graphene OS put on this mother fucker.

        That’s really too bad because I did appreciate all the other features of advanced protection except for that.

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        2 days ago

        Presumably, rooted users/custom ROMs should be able to get around this, but how many developers are going to continue to support development and/or release .apk files if it’s only a tiny subset of the userbase they can reach?