For a couple of years we directly loaded our app onto dedicated devices that we deployed to client locations. Adding an extra day to this process would require some extra work / planning.
This is for an app that isn’t on the Play Store, and many of these devices don’t have GMS, or a store or browser on them.
We’ve since moved entirely to an MDM, so this isn’t really an issue anymore, but we do occasionally run into a device that’s not yet been enrolled and still uses the manual installation
The Google page I read was the opposite of that. The first time you unlock sideloading, they’ll warn you and make you wait for a day. From then on it’s unlocked.
While I hate Google with a passion, and don’t trust them at all, this seems like a reasonable way to handle the issue of non tech people being coerced into sideloading unsavory apps by scammers.
Look into unhooking the antenna. I know that some of the articles that I read a couple of years ago when I was looking into this myself suggested this to keep the rest of the system working, without it being able to connect and send data.
Amen … they’re the fucking worst.
It’s been a month since I used UBlock to hide it completely, but the AI bot built into QuickBooks Online would give me cookie recipes and other random things, but bitch about being most useful for accounting specific things.
After flogging it for a week it told me I needed credits before I could use it again and tried to sell me some.
Same here. Running WireGuard on a VPS in Seattle.
Paying $10 a month, but that’s just because I also use that VPS for OwnCloud as well.