Instead of forcing developers to make more reliable applications, Google will leak this status (privacy invasive IMHO) and developers will use it to block features.
No, that sounds accurate. Basically “Advanced protection” puts security in Google’s hands, and therefore is irrelevant to people worried about Google being the security risk…
Advanced protection
blocks side loading
disables installing apps from outside the Google Play Store
— so to me, running a degoogled Android device it is not just useless but actively harmful to the security of future apps that may become overreliant on this monopolist framework.
They will if the cost/benefit equation changes. I don’t only mean economics here, but I am using “cost/benefit” as a wide spectrum metaphor. In other words, once it’s not worth doing, they won’t do it anymore.
Instead of forcing developers to make more reliable applications, Google will leak this status (privacy invasive IMHO) and developers will use it to block features.
Am I wrong somewhere?
Correct
No, that sounds accurate. Basically “Advanced protection” puts security in Google’s hands, and therefore is irrelevant to people worried about Google being the security risk…
Advanced protection
— so to me, running a degoogled Android device it is not just useless but actively harmful to the security of future apps that may become overreliant on this monopolist framework.
Maybe Google could stop shipping malware via advertising
They absolutely could, and arguably they should — will they, though?
They will if the cost/benefit equation changes. I don’t only mean economics here, but I am using “cost/benefit” as a wide spectrum metaphor. In other words, once it’s not worth doing, they won’t do it anymore.