Google is adding DRM to all Android apps

>Earlier this week, Google quietly rolled out a feature that adds a string of metadata to all APK files (that's the file type for Android apps) when they are signed by the developer. You can't install an application that hasn't been signed during its final build, so that means that all apps built using the latest APK Signature Scheme will have a nice little chunk of DRM built into them. And eventually, your phone will run a version of Android that won't be able to install apps without it.
Thoughts?

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Understandable if your trying to protect the non tech savvy masses from chinese viruses.

The ppl who want to install APKs from different sources will still find a way.

You can root and/or install another rom.

Forgot source, sorry.
androidcentral.com/google-drm-android-apps

It's pretty sad how capitalism allows for free platforms to become completely locked down. Funny enough, Linux now has majority marketshare for the consumer yet they have less freedom and productivity than completely closed Windows.

They are trying to avoid people from downloading fake/modded apps. It's similar to the signature thing, but that only works when updating an app. They aren't implementing this for apps downloaded outside the Play Store (at least I hope they wont)

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I doubt Google would stop people from trying to sideload apps, but I'm a bit worried about them trying to stop modded apps. I got an Android phone partly because it's easy to pirate apps, but if Google adds DRM to apps, that would be bad. I mean, PC games already have Denuvo cancer on them.

What a fucking retard you are, to blame capitalism for this. A company made a platform and they themselves made it open source, they are free to do with it as they please. It didn't fall from the sky, they are still the proprietors. It wasn't made by a government, it cannot be controlled by a government, and you cannot dictate to a company what to do with itself as an outsider. Get used to it, you moron, this is the way the world works in general as long as property and privacy exist, and has nothing to do with capitalism.

I honestly hope America will get a taste of communism and socialism, just to see the real filth and squalor that inevitably results. After that will come an age when communists get lynched in the streets.

Kill yourself, capitalist bootlicker.

Come give us a visit in Eastern Europe, you faggot. You'll see what communists will make of your country, given a chance.

People like you are the worst kind of filth, you are slaves who wish to be leashed because you cannot live your lives on your own, you do not want to be held responsible for your lives, decisions, actions and thus not be held responsible for your wellbeing. You are literally worse than dogs.

Come to the former block, sing some praise to the regime. It's a quick way to be put out of your misery and die on socialist land.

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Okay, let me just root this device and forget about it.

Google is copying Apple

Looks like they want to kill Android in favor of Fuchsia

>You can't install an application that hasn't been signed during its final build
Bullshit. I've never had problems installing unsigned applications.

What are these absolute brainlet posts? Jesus christ, go back to pajeetland

Pretty fair. I think they've already been doing something like this but people found out how to bypass it.

>I think they've already been doing something like this
Since when have they prevent modded or cracked apps from being sideloaded?

>And eventually, your phone will run a version of Android that won't be able to install apps without it.
But I like QuickPic 4.5.2

Since successfully modding/cracking apps means breaking the signing of the app.

Easy piracy made Android popular. It has no other redeeming qualities

>It has no other redeeming qualities
Customizability, widgets, and the ability to move apps anywhere on the home screen are pretty redeeming qualities when compared to iOS.

yeah, nah

it's almost the opposite

nice rebuttal

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Well, other people view them as redeeming qualities, if not you.

They should rather redesign the UI, it's long-overdue

>it cannot be controlled by a government
Yes it can
>you cannot dictate to a company what to do with itself as an outsider
Yes you can
What alternate reality are you living in, you randian fuckstain?

>block
Confirmed not Dimitry.

They're not really compelling reasons. The main reasons are that Android is available on phones that are right across the price range and pajeet and chan can easily pirate APKs.

I didn't say they were compelling reasons why people would choose Android over iOS. I'm just saying those are some reasons why some people prefer Android over iOS.

OK, well maybe the way "redeeming qualities" was worded made it seem like I was trying to say those reasons were why people choose Android over iOS, but I wasn't trying to imply that.

absolutely couldnt care less, i only use my phone for making calls and basic apps.

Android can get fucked even more than google.

>You can't install an application that hasn't been signed during its final build
That's always been the case, you can't install unsigned apks on a unrooted android.

>chunk of DRM built into them
It's not, apk signing serves as a way of identification and authenthicity, and you can sign apks yourself. The new added metadata just enables offline verification.

>avoid people from downloading
Nobody is stopping you from downloading or installing moded apps, they just wont get recognized by the play store.
>downloaded outside the Play Store
Apk signing happens before the apk is deployed, it doesn't matter what you do with it after that.

Bullshit. You'll get a "failed to parse package" error upon install, your apk is either signed or you rooted your phone.

You can resign it, you wont get updates but you can still use it.

Like that time when murican gov forced github to sell itself to M$

>your apk is either signed or you rooted your phone.
Or they have an unlocked bootloader and have installed a ROM that doesn't check all signatures.

It will probably be used to allow you to install signed APKs while this is unchecked.

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>customizability
you wont be customizing unless you're either on Jow Forums or below 20yo
>widgets
yes i too love battery hogging apps that may or may not work depending on their mood

> You can't install an application that hasn't been signed during its final build
github.com/appium/sign

This, as the average Joe becomes more and more tech illiterate, companies have to implement changes like this,not only to protect their customers, but also to protect themselves from their customers. Dumb fucks are only getting dumber, and security issues just can't be tolerated anymore.