Android apk download safety
Hi Mozilla community. I wanted to pose this question based on years of d/l's of a specific community built game Unciv (on github). The repo and experience are cleanly ma… (прочетете още)
Hi Mozilla community. I wanted to pose this question based on years of d/l's of a specific community built game Unciv (on github).
The repo and experience are cleanly maintained by competent devs. Releases are provided for several platforms, including as an Android signed apk.
I tend to keep up with the latest release rather than waiting for a new version on Google Play. This implies download of the apk, install. Firefox puts significant scrutiny on this signed apk, downloaded from a generally safe site (github), from a repo with ~10k ⭐'s.
I feel Firefox could be a bit more coherent in its security compulsiveness (which is not unreasonable to have). Of the above, starting with the signed apk, this is a practical opportunity to have a checkbox for an allowance sidestepping excessive scrutiny in future downloads that fulfills the download phenotype. Because change is implicit, a failure on the phenotype check could trigger a notice with check, a shifted allowance in the phenotype identity, versus compounded.
diligence check: I posed the above to gpt 4 & 5.1, answer there is this can't happen without some work (for android), but has merit. Posing q.