Not an issue on Android 8
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Android 8 makes the permission to install an out-of-band APK site-specific as opposed to global. This change makes the conditioned user behavior of being OK with installing APKs from arbitrary websites no less dangerous. It's still a bad idea, and no vendor should imply it's OK
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Rather than relying on a store for security it be much better if people learned to properly obtain software from trustworthy sources incl. verifying it and/or at least running the APK through online scanners. Let’s see this is a chance...
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This doesn't make sense to me, there's a similar store tax/% cut for Microsoft and Sony. Honestly this is enough to make me avoid installing it on Android, although unfortunately most users simply don't care about security. Also it's in the iOS App Store..
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The whole install for Android just seems messy and I can already see tons of issues with this deployment model for users. I could see some just searching Play Store for Fortnite, not finding it, and thinking maybe its their phone.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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On one hand there's a risk of downloading anything untrustworthy. On the other hand it's understandable that software companies usually don't want to use any kind of "play store". Windows, i.E., would be a much smaller platform without the games/software anyone can install.
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But there's the possibility to catch some malware too, when downloading cracked games, keygens, etc. - or even backdoors like uPlay and other stuff some companies force you to install so you can play their game - the trust issue is the same.
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