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‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near (www.techradar.com)
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[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No, it's not reasonable. Fuck the clueless majority. Stupid people should be prevented from hurting others, but they should not be prevented from hurting themselves. If you manage to download malware that's on you, no big brother should ever be controlling what you can and can't install on your personal fuckin devices. I'm a fucking adult and I do not need or want some bullshit fucking kid mode imposed on my personal shit because Google went full fucking nazi. Companies have no business dictating how you use your own purchases property. Imagine your fucking car saying nah you've already driven twenty miles today it's not safe for you to drive more and just shutting the fuck down. Every motherfucker making these decisions in every industry need to be publicly gruesomely executed. The owner class needs to remember who they're accountable to.

[–] stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 2 hours ago

Don't cut yourself on that edge there, bro.

You know why we first called malware computer viruses, back in the day? Because they spread.

Every infected computer makes the botnet stronger and more effective at infecting future computers.

Every personal email account that's hacked and exploited is a treasure trove of information against all that person's friends and relatives and contacts, and a vector of attack against everyone that person has ever emailed.

So yeah, we need security controls for the same reason we need vaccines. Because public health protects everybody.