Google should be barred from “treating Epic differently,” Epic Games says.
  • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
    262·
    1 year ago

    The nag screen is important for a bunch of less technically literate people who would otherwise install malware without thinking twice.

    Or even once.

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I really don’t know how to feel about it

      The people it’s intended to protect will just click “yes” to anything in my experience

      I don’t have a statistical analysis of results over a normal distribution of the world population, though

      • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I feel like Epic wouldn’t be so strident about it without proof that it negatively affecting install rate.

        But maybe the perception that it affects the rate is sufficient.

        • SMillerNL@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think it affects install rate by design, which is bad for Epic in this case but good for security in most