"I don't like Bonzi Buddy so people should be prevented from installing it."

Okay, it is a full on spyware virus though, not super sure why people would love Bonzi on their system.

This is kind of a shitty compromise, the second you leave a tiny crack open in the security, maybe through root access, maybe some better sideloading, somehow people WILL be tricked into installing malware, and it baffles me...

I've seen it happen multiple times with my older (and younger, though less often) relatives and acquaintances, I'm really not sure how like a solid 5 dialogs that scream at them with sayings like "do not do this", "this is dangerous", "if someone is telling you to do this they're a scammer", and that somehow raises zero alarms, however if you tell them to consider the possibility that they're downloading a virus, or that the nice IT man on the phone is probably not that trustworthy, they will simply not believe you.

That's why I kind of get the paranoia, though most of it is just that and I really believe that software freedom is a whole lot more important.