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>>kotaKa+(OP)
If this is a thing then the solution they offer is incorrect. A big giant red screen: “warning the identity of this application developer has not been verified and this could be an application stealing your data, etc” would have worked.

What they want is to get rid of apps like YouTube Vanced that are making them lose money (and other Play Store apps)

>>rvnx+Ig1
It won't work because of too many false positives. People are already trained to ignore warnings, like how they blindly accept T&C without reading.

>>paradi+on1
If a giant red warning saying 'THIS APP MAY BE MALWARE' doesn't stop someone, then they've either made an informed choice to proceed or it's willful negligence. In other words, users aren't 'trained' to ignore warnings; they're simply being willfully negligent.

>>artisi+gy1
The fact that you don't even realise why that wouldn't work is kind of telling.

> users aren't being 'trained' to ignore warnings

Of course they are. Every time they click "continue anyway" and it actually isn't malware (which is 99% of the time) they are being trained that the warning is nonsense.

And they're right! What use is a warning that an app might be malware, if a) it actually isn't almost every time you see the warning, and b) you have no way of telling if it is or isn't anyway?

I hate this move too and I don't think they should have done "just make the warning even bigger!" is obviously dumb.