• misk@piefed.socialOP
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    27 days ago

    It sounds exactly like what MacOS does - very annoying but not really preventing anyone willing to install app that’s not notarised.

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      26 days ago

      It’s been a while since I’ve used MacOS, but isn’t the process for allowing apps roughly comparable to enabling apk install rights on Android?

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        26 days ago

        There is an option to do that from command line but for a regular user it’ll be:

        • Open the app, get warned that it wasn’t notarised, default option is to move it to Trash
        • Go to Settings -> Privacy which will now show an option to whitelist this specific app
        • Open the app again, confirm with password
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          26 days ago

          I believe I used the command line when I last used MacOS, that’s the option that came up when I did a search for only getting apps outside of their store.

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        26 days ago

        I’d still count this as a win because realistically you wouldn’t be able to do anything about Google going with the original plan. For normies there’s no alternative other than Apple which is even more restrictive regarding iPhones.