Now you’re changing what I’m saying.
Before you claimed that I said that people should have to wait to install things on their own device and now you’re saying that I don’t consider it an unreasonable requirement.
If you are running a device with privileged play services, you can simply wait 24 hours to install an app.
All I’m saying is that the sky isn’t falling.
This is, transparently, very bad. If we had to do the exact same authentication flow to install apps that don’t come from the Microsoft Store (every Steam game, for example), then folks would be up in arms about it. The conditioning of the Play Store being “how you install apps on Android” has been an enormous detriment to the expectations of freedom people have with their devices. I didn’t even know you COULD install apps any other way until about a year ago, and I thought of myself as a power user.
I wish I could do more, but I just spread the word to people I know. It’s hard to get them to care about this, though, since it will not actually affect their experience yet. I wish we were (as a species) better able to look down the long barrel of consequences to see the chambered round at the end, and take action before our liberties have been blown away.
Knowing Google, they’ll use AI/Machine learning to automate the verification process, with probably no human eyes looking at it. What’s stopping people from using fake identification?
The same thing stopping people from using fake identification for banks.
Why should something be a certain way is simply a way of speaking. I am not responsible for your misunderstanding, my phraseology is sound.
All I’m saying is that the sky isn’t falling.
Expressing concern is not the same as saying the sky is falling. That argument is usually used by those who want to quell dissent or questioning (“Tsk tsk, you’re so overreactive.”) Things are done for a reason; one should always question why (especially nowadays) as the reasons aren’t always altruistic. The existence of this forum proves that.
So my question still stands: how is it reasonable to require someone to wait 24 hours to install something on a phone they own? Are they “protecting us from ourselves”?
Yea I don’t know about that…people have been using second identities for years even opening bank accounts in other names, everything from abuse survivors to people just wanting to get away from their past…