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Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU (www.aclu.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 22 points 11 months ago (11 children)

App stores are the worst thing to happen to phone tech. Back in the Nokia days there were no restrictions on installing any app you want as there were no official app stores and that's how it should be, imagine if Microsoft made it impossible to install apps outside of its windows app store, no would accept that, so why do we accept it for mobiles OS's

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Oh, that's coming, just wait and see.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I'll switch to Linux before dealing with that nonsense

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  • [+] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    imagine if Microsoft made it impossible to install apps outside of its windows app store, no would accept that, so why do we accept it for mobiles OS's

    I felt like Apple was going down that route. You have to jump through so many hoops to run programs that aren't signed by one of their $99/y certificates.

    The final drop for me when I was unable to remove Music.app. it's on a shadowed read-only partition that rebooting updates write to. Extra many hoops to unlock the same to do changes to it (that might make stuff flaky).

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Hasn't apple always been anti sideloading, and anti jail braking, people who want those options stick to android, but even Google is trying to become like Apple in that regard these days, years ago when I joined this industry I didn't think it would become so insidious and evil, I wish I could change careers but now it's too late

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Google removing the don’t be evil, Reddit canary dying back in 2016…

    Most people clearly do not take that shit seriously.

    The richest man in the world is partially rich from running hacking and crypto scams. Ffs.

    Thankfully I wasnt able to break into tech. Not sure how I’d sleep at night helping the worlds biggest piles of shit destroy everything.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Yeah Apple is straight up user hostile to people running apps on MacOS not signed by Apple, and I don't know why more people don't talk about it and push back against it. They are one step away from removing the ability to freely install software on your own computer.

    I don't use itunes on mac or ios, so I use an app called NoTunes on MacOS that kills the itunes app whenever it launches.

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