I came here looking for Rule 34
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I thought it was Jevons Paradox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I guess it's the same underlying principle for both paradoxii.
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Asking where somebody's from and having them respond with the state is not unreasonable -- you can already tell they’re American from the accent. The US is huge, about half of its states have more land area than half of the countries in the world. Asking where someone is from and receiving "the US" in response is about as informative as someone from Europe replying "Europe". Like yeah, obviously, I could tell by your accent, but where in Europe?
Do you assume everybody is able to recognize Americans or Europeans "from their accent" ?
Before quickly running to dismiss this move, please at least do your research with regards to the situation in the countries mentioned in the article, especially Singapore and Thailand.
Side-loaded malware has been an epidemic in SE Asia, and there are MILLIONS of dollars stolen (mostly from pensioners!) via side-loaded malware disguised as gambling apps - the local population is particularly suspectible to gambling, especially the older generations that are not so tech-savvy.
It's good they decided to do something about it.
They trialled this in Singapore and I’ve been telling people on Hacker News that it’s been going to happen for a while:
> Singapore Android users to be blocked from installing certain unverified apps as part of anti-scam trial (07 Feb 2024)
— https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/google-android-dev...
It makes total sense to the average person. There has been a constant stream of “yet another Android user got scammed out of their life savings because of Android side loading; iPhone users not affected”
It’s an inconvenient fact for power users, but side loading makes users significantly more vulnerable to scams and restricting side loading is both a predictable and reasonable response to that fact.
If you don’t like this, you need a better argument than “my desire to run any app I want is more important than pensioners losing their life savings” because that is not a winning argument with the average person, with governments, or with Google/Apple.
— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194034
> As I’ve mentioned here before, sideloading is a genuine security concern, not merely an excuse for Apple to exert control. There is a never-ending stream of people losing their life savings. It happens on Android and not iOS because Android allows sideloading and iOS doesn’t. There is a very real human cost to this.
> Police warn new Android malware scam can factory reset phones; over S$10 million lost in first half of 2023
> There have been more than 750 cases of victims downloading the malware into their phones in the first half of 2023, with losses of at least S$10 million (US$7.3 million).
— https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/android-malware-sc...
> DBS, UOB become latest banks to restrict access if unverified apps are found on customers' phones
> They are the latest banks in Singapore to do so – after OCBC and Citibank – amid a spate of malware scams targeting users of Android devices.
— https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/dbs-uob-anti-scam-...
> 74-year-old man loses $70k after downloading third-party app to buy Peking duck
> “I couldn’t believe the news. I thought: Why am I so stupid? I was so angry at myself for being cheated of my life savings. My family is frustrated and I ended up quarrelling with my wife,” said Mr Loh, who has three children.
— https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/74-year-old-man-loses...
> Singapore Android users to be blocked from installing certain unverified apps as part of anti-scam trial
> "Based on our analysis of major fraud malware families that exploit these sensitive runtime permissions, we found that over 95 per cent of installations came from internet-sideloading sources," it added.
— https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/anduril-secures-305...
> CNA Explains: Are Android devices more prone to malware and how do you protect yourself from scams?
> Why are scammers more likely to target Android users? How do you spot a fake app and what should you do if your device is infected by malware?
— https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/android-malware-sc...
> Nearly 2,000 victims fell for Android malware scams, at least S$34.1 million lost in 2023
> In 2023, about 1,899 cases of Android malware scams were reported in Singapore. The average amount lost was about S$17,960.
— https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/android-malware-sc...
> Android users in Singapore tried to install unverified apps nearly 900,000 times in past 6 months
> These attempts were blocked by a security feature rolled out by Google six months ago as part of a trial to better protect users against malware scams, which led to at least S$34.1 million (US$25.8 million) in losses last year with about 1,900 cases reported.
— https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/android-users-inst...
I know the situation in Singapore and Thailand and I was curious if there would be anyone mentioning it in this discussion. Thank you for your comment, you should be upvoted.
The crazy thing is this is all under the pretense of preventing malware. And I constantly hear this argument that the app stores protect people, even from developers.
I truly don't get it. Are these people from 2009? Have they seen the apps on the current app stores? If you're lucky your highest rated flashlight app will only have a few Fullscreen ads and a subscription less than $10/mo. The recipe sites from content farms are less bloated and way less scammy.
It's certainly not about preventing scams. It's about preventing competition in the scamming business.
I happen to know the situation in some of the countries mentioned in the article.
There are millions of $ stolen via side-loaded malware.
It's good they decided to do something about it.
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I would feed this as a prompt into an LLM agent and see if it could sell an AGA to me.
There are many countries where just having a standard-ish license with English is perfectly fine. I think last time we had a thread on this topic someone mentioned a few countries where that wasn't true but most of Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, (edit: UK), and a bunch of other countries will just take your local plastic license as long as it has English on it.
I have never driven a car outside of my own country, and I always wondered how they even allow you to drive a car without getting re-trained in a country where the driving system is so different than where you obtained your license (I'm looking at you, Commonwealth countries). Isn't it difficult to adapt to left-side driving while having used to right-side? It surely needs a little bit of adapting as a pedestrian.
In Germany there is also a strange zone where people bring sanity to government processes that have no business being this complicated.
In Greece, traditionally, we tend to consider Germany as the almost ultimate place in regards to reliability, efficiency, etc. It's a bit soothing to discover that almost everywhere everybody has the same issues (the difference in magnitude matters, of course)
This scam is everywhere: set up a website to "middleman" yourself into the application process of any online permit/certificate/authorization, make it look as similar to an official website as possible, game up your way to first place in search results through SEO, profit.
It's not even illegal in many places. There are still a ton of legitimate lawyery/agency business outlets that do the same in physical form: They just complete forms for a hefty sum.
Sometimes they would also submit the forms / get the response back for you, which could be a real service in places where normally you would wait for a couple hours in a governmental office just to submit a form.