zlacker

>For an average Joe and Jane, who gets their money stolen, that's a good move. They don't care about technology, they just want their bank, instagram, cat pictures and video calls to work and not get scammed

We could also teach basic computer literacy in schools so people could understand common scams. We could sell phones with "extra protections" that people with less knowledge could buy.

The only reason to force this crap on everyone is control. What google cares about is getting rid of people's ability to block ads, kill youtube vanced, and so on.

Google will implement this, the consumers will pay for it, scams will still exist, and Google will open their hands and say "welp we tried". The infrastructure will already be in place, and it will never be revoked.

>>63stac+(OP)
Who's going to pony up the capital to teach computer literacy to a 70 yo in the boondocks of X developing country that is the primary demographic for these scams?

>>jhansc+2a
Public education is already funded in most of the world, we just have to add it to the curriculum. People who can't be reached through that can just buy the "protected" phones in the meantime.