Re:Google is hurting new apps that have less users than comp...
by fluidcruft on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:04PM
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You get warnings when you install apps from Microsoft Store?
Play Store isn't a web browser.
Re:Google is hurting new apps that have less users than comp...
by areyourllySorry on Saturday May 03, 2025 @12:14PM
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edge exe/msi downloads, not store. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_of_the_Web
Re:Google is hurting new apps that have less users than comp...
by fluidcruft on Saturday May 03, 2025 @05:32PM
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That's my point. The apples to apples comparisons are Microsoft Store vs Play Store vs App Store... or Chrome vs Edge vs Safari. NOT Play Store vs Edge and Safari.
Play Store is NOT a web browser. It downloads from one place and one place only.
Re:Google is hurting new apps that have less users than comp...
by areyourllySorry on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:26PM
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my bad, i get you now. i still believe warnings should either be everywhere, or nowhere.
If you download an App using MSFT Edge on Windows, it will warn you (MoTW). If you download an App using any browser on macOS, it will warn you (also MoTW). But if you grab apps via the App Store, there's no warning.
Is that also unfair?
While it's been many years since I did hands on end user support, or even worse, support for family friends back in the 9x days, people still have little clue about what they're doing without a big flashing warning sitting in front of them..., which even that sometimes does not work.
Even I'll often choose an extension for Firefox that has more installs. If I'm going to get a SAML decoder, I want the least phishy SAML decoder available.