what prevents someone from downloading and installing the apk to their phone

google.

https://www.androidsage.com/2025/08/26/google-blocks-sideloading-of-android-apps/

what i have seen it on so far was pure slop, some random images from photobank, sometimes even with the watermark, accompanied by generated voice, so these are the ones that should really go.

might it have something to do with this?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

i have already seen some “synthetic content” labels attached to random videos

giving about 5 clear indications that you’re from Ireland

now i am really curious, you wouldn’t be able to put red circle around these 5 clear indications, would you?

i am “this person”, you clown. is ireland the only country you know, or why did you decide to place me there? whatever ireland did to you must have obviously been something terrible to trigger you so much :D

my friend doesn’t get the joke. why should we care you are irish?

i have not found single dns that would resolve the domain (tried google dns, opendns, opennic.org, among others), so maybe it is just a config error.

$ host catflix.su 94.247.43.254
Using domain server:
Name: 94.247.43.254
Address: 94.247.43.254#53
Aliases: 

Host catflix.su not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

hm… i am not sure if this can be config error, or some censorship child protection is happening here.

i am in eu, in a relatively liberal country where no one cares about a torrent (yet), but i am in the vodafone network, so the latter would be not out of the realm of possibility.

$ host catflix.su ns1.ddos-guard.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.ddos-guard.net
Address: 185.129.101.200#53
Aliases: 

catflix.su has address 186.2.163.75

or it could be it is not delegated at all…

domain:        CATFLIX.SU
nserver:       ns1.ddos-guard.net.
state:         REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED

$ host catflix.su
Host catflix.su not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

i ahve always wondered how this works from the legal point. what if you disagree, should you sue to get your money back? you are buying product with some expectations, they can’t just change that after you paid, can they?

it is similar with cars, what if you buy new car and the car’s infotainment asks you to accept some outrageous terms and conditions, you do bother to actually read them and then decline. can you get your money back? has anyone ever tried?

and how many ads do you think all these now gone power users were displaying and consuming? 😂

you are forgetting that reddit is not just coders and sysadmins.

people writing comments about - i don’t know - sneakers, might not care about the reddit drama at all. and all comments are helpful as AI training material - don’t succumb to the biased idea that only what interests you is important or “helpful”

There is not a company in the world that is happy to ignore 1/100th of their revenue disappearing

except we are talking about USERS disappearing, not revenue. it is likely that revenue actually increased, because x+n (where n > 0) people paying more than zero generating more than zero is bigger number than x generating zero.

they will appear as deleted, but they are not really deleted, they still have them in the database and still make money selling them 🤷‍♂️

That’s less traffic, which is less ad money, which comprises the vast majority of their revenue.

and how many people do the same thing you do? they don’t really care about 1% of dedicated users…

it is not helping him now, so at least he will be familiar with that feeling 😂

when did you last check where your flash 8 installer is?

Why did he pay? Or does the hotel have access to his card and can charge whatever they wish at will?