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>>lkrubn+(OP)
Or Amazon video on Android device I have -- in order to have play prime videos it told me to disable app source checking and side-load some .apk file, which will then help me get the Amazon video apk file... or something.

Yeah forget that. At first I thought it was a joke of some sort. But I guess that's how you are supposed to do it.

I'll just stick to Netflix and watch videos there. Somehow that manages to work without side-loading a bunch of crap.

>>rdtsc+p7
What's the threat model there? It's not like Amazon are going to start stealing customer credit card numbers - if anything they're one of the few companies I'd trust to get security right. Tick the checkbox in settings, install the APK, untick the checkbox again. It's really not a lot of effort or risk.

(The most sensible-sounding negative claim I've heard is that Amazon do that so that they can do more invasive location tracking than Google permits (though the same kind that Google does themselves))

>>lmm+Zg
I'm pretty sure you have to keep the checkbox unticked so that the Amazon app can install apks and even update itself. In fact Amazon's official documentation[1] for installing their app doesn't tell users to uncheck the checkbox. The way I see it, keeping the untrusted apks checkbox ticked is a massive security risk.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/underground