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0 pointsnunez1y ago0 comments

Replacing a launcher can be pretty bad.

This happened to people I know. Some innocent sounding app replaced their launcher and added a fake Gmail widget to their home screen. It prompted them to login and, well, you know the rest.

This would never happen on iOS because you can't change the launcher.

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827a1y ago

Agreed. Its my opinion that you should be able to replace the launcher on Android devices, but the Play Store should refuse to distribute apps that do this.

nunezOP1y ago

I really like this.

People that know what they're doing can go nuts and sideload apks all day long, which is still more flexibility than you'll ever get with Apple.

People that barely know how to use their phone outside of a few key apps will never have to worry about this attack vector.

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