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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can only hope the EU will set Google straight, the way they did Apple.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Considering:

    A) You can still install any app you want beyond the Play Store (the rule is that developers need to get all their apps signed, and doesn't effect the end user technically)

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    B) Its most likely being done because of the EU, it's a part of the DSA (https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-services-act_en). The "trader status", and other parts against illegal content)

    The EU most like has already set them straight and this is the result.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Signed by who? Google? If so how does that not basically give them a monopoly on what can be installed?

    And what about privacy? If somone wants to build an app to help whistleblowers, they have to expose themselves to a shady shitty mega Corp like Google?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    The EU will, at some point, cave to the interest of global capital. I am proud that they have fought as well as they have these past few decades, but as long as capitalism rules the planet, capital will always supersede rule of law and democracy in the end.

    America is about to, if it has not already, succumb completely to that state of affairs, and once that power is consolidated by the capital, EU will be (one of) the next targets.

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