Well, the setting your turn off is found by going to Settings >> Security.
I will stand slightly corrected though, as what you do is click a check in the box to "Allow installation of non-market apps", referred to as "Unknown sources".
So you check to allow it, not uncheck the setting. But it is definitely under the Security Settings.
One issue this decision by Google creates, is that of side-loading. This is what you do when you load an app that is not in the Play app store.
When you side-load, you have to turn off security. And the risk is that after you finish installing an app via a side-load, you might not turn security back on.
And that could allow malware to get installed, which in turn could turn your phone into a zombie.
This risk becomes greater with the number of useful apps that Google disallows and move out of Play.
The risk of phishing sites purporting to have the app will increase as well.
This is a bad move by Google in many ways. And it will hurt them in the long run.
Citing child pornography has become akin to the Streisand Effect.
Maybe a law should be enacted that requires politicians who use this claim must provide references to objective studies that support the statement or be forced to make a very loud and prominent apology for lying to the public.
I think the issue keeps getting framed in the wrong way.
When I go to my local store, I pay taxes because that store had a legal requirement to do so, and because that store only has one locality, one county, and one state to deal with. So they can stay up on all of that fairly easily.
If we MUST make those who sell over the internet collect sales tax, we could make it very easy on them, big or small, if we simply make it that they collect sales tax based on where they, the seller, are. Just as with a local store, it's fairly easy to be up on all of their laws, local, county, and state.
If I live in VA and I drive to WV and buy something there, I pay WV sales tax. And if they have none (I'm not saying they do or don't), VA doesn't stop me at the border and ask me to declare any goods, and then pay VA sales tax on the purchase price. Hell, they don't even stop me.
In this case, consider the internet as both the vehicle and the road to get me to any place. So I pay sales tax where I bought it, not where I live. Just like when I drive to the store.
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Re: Side-loading
I will stand slightly corrected though, as what you do is click a check in the box to "Allow installation of non-market apps", referred to as "Unknown sources".
So you check to allow it, not uncheck the setting. But it is definitely under the Security Settings.
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Side-loading
When you side-load, you have to turn off security. And the risk is that after you finish installing an app via a side-load, you might not turn security back on.
And that could allow malware to get installed, which in turn could turn your phone into a zombie.
This risk becomes greater with the number of useful apps that Google disallows and move out of Play.
The risk of phishing sites purporting to have the app will increase as well.
This is a bad move by Google in many ways. And it will hurt them in the long run.
Better if Google had forced it to be a paid app.
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Maybe a law should be enacted that requires politicians who use this claim must provide references to objective studies that support the statement or be forced to make a very loud and prominent apology for lying to the public.
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Sales Tax Blues
When I go to my local store, I pay taxes because that store had a legal requirement to do so, and because that store only has one locality, one county, and one state to deal with. So they can stay up on all of that fairly easily.
If we MUST make those who sell over the internet collect sales tax, we could make it very easy on them, big or small, if we simply make it that they collect sales tax based on where they, the seller, are. Just as with a local store, it's fairly easy to be up on all of their laws, local, county, and state.
If I live in VA and I drive to WV and buy something there, I pay WV sales tax. And if they have none (I'm not saying they do or don't), VA doesn't stop me at the border and ask me to declare any goods, and then pay VA sales tax on the purchase price. Hell, they don't even stop me.
In this case, consider the internet as both the vehicle and the road to get me to any place. So I pay sales tax where I bought it, not where I live. Just like when I drive to the store.
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