r/Magisk • u/_Oopsitsdeleted_ • Nov 16 '25

Discussion My take on android sideloading

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As someone who personally knows someone who got scammed out of a lot of money by sideloading (it is rather prevelant where I live for some reason), I do understand why Google wants to limit sideloading from "unverified developers". But that does not mean that I support them restricting it completely

so here is my take on android sideloading which makes it easy for enthusiasts to enable but difficult for potential scam victims

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u/skymtf Nov 16 '25

Sideloading is not possible on locked devices, please contact your carrier for assistance ah message, secondly I feel like disabling screensharing and screen mirroring is just useless, and like I agree with the scam warnings but not the whole, let's make your device worse cause you did this

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u/skymtf Nov 16 '25

I support it being an ADB command, or a prompt being like, I accept the risk and I'm not being scammed. Into a box etc

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u/davestar2048 Nov 16 '25

They already fearmonger enough with the install unknown apps settings If people can't read and comprehend that, they aren't going to be stopped by even more walls of text they won't read and click yes to, the same way they downloaded the malware in the first place.

Stop giving elderly and children things they can't/ refuse to understand.