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Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

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205 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Scarblac ◴[31 Aug 25 08:08 UTC] No.45081381[source]▶
Is it possible to let owners use their hardware as they wish, without having large companies control what they deem "safe"?

I'm not the user of my phone, I'm its owner.

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lblume ◴[31 Aug 25 08:14 UTC] No.45081410[source]▶
Sure. But the societal losses of a vast amount of people getting scammed might in general be more important your individual wish for freedom to run anything you want on your device. I think there are important tradeoffs to be made, and that we have to acknowledge that many people in society less technically skilled might suffer from serious consequences in your proposed model of computation.
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1. unsungNovelty ◴[31 Aug 25 16:17 UTC] No.45084330[source]▶
What this does is punish good users. Not stop scams. They will move on to something else or find solutions to this.

Same as the privacy invading tech/E2EE for "national security/protecting children online". You think banning VPN or E2EE apps is going to stop bad actors?

NO! As always it effects normal users for control/power or money.

How many times does this same thing get played over and over again? It's the same script you know?