Apple and Google use their app stores to shape what apps you can and cannot have on devices, but now more governments—including the U.S. government—are using legal and extralegal tools to lean on these gatekeepers in order to assert that same control. Google’s central registration system will be devastating for the Android developer community. EFF has signed on to F-Droid’s open letter. If you care about taking back control of tech, you should too.
  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
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    12 days ago

    This is has not been fast. Bit by bit what should have been a website has morphed to an app. Apps that collect your data and look to charges subscription - it’s death by a thousand papercuts.

    Even if I visit the site between cookies and the greed indicating legitimate interest through to paywalls it’s just too much effort for little value.

    If your app can be abused then that’s on the app provider to figure not the user to compensate for.