Comment on The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users

adhdplantdev@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• harry_balzac@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What was Google protecting us from?

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  • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Adblocker apparently

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Certainly not from malware. The play store is the central repository of Android malware.

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  • XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Privacy and choice.

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  • adhdplantdev@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In theory malicious android apps. In practice they create locked ecosystems that are hard for anyone to break in. No one wants another apple model.

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    • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No one wants another apple model.

      Indeed… If I wanted a locked down toy I would have bought an iThing.

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