People care about privacy. But they care more about convenience. If the browser is preinstalled on your system and you are not making a deliberate choice to switch, you’ll keep using it.
Changing a habit is a difficult task. Usually, people don’t like to do it. So they stick with the worse, even though there are such beautiful things like Firefox.
That’s what giants like Apple know. They draw people into their own ecosystem in order to groom them into the perfect customer. They start in schools by giving schools special cheap licenses to use Apple products. An investment into future customers, because as we know, customers will gravitate towards stuff they know.
And I wonder how such things can be legal.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
EU: demands changes to allow non-verifiable software
Apple: disagrees, but allows it
platform browser less secure
TheRegister: Damned Apple!!
independantiste@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Their platform is less secure because apple implemented side loading in a half assed way just so they can say the comply. Computers and android phones have been doing this since forever without any major issues. I believe if the security of your platform relies on only installing apps from a single source, then it’s not secure.
Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
well said
skilltheamps@feddit.de 6 months ago
The problem is not the EU demanding that, it rather is Apples blatant incompetence at implementing it
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not incompetence, it’s maliciousness
tristan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Here let me fix that for you
Apple:
disagrees, but allows itdoes half assed job to try and make regulations look bad for its usersplatform browser less secure
TheRegister: Damned Apple!!
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s not what’s said in the article. At all. What so ever.
The problem isn’t suddenly allowing third party browsers. It’s that Apple’s implementation to allow that in Safari sends out info about sites visited with those app stores. It allows snooping of what 3rd party things people use.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Apple: “SeE WhAt YoU MaDe mE Do!”
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So maybe that’s why they didn’t want to allow that?
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
The problem here - the ONLY problem - is using a fucking browser to do everything, instead of… you know, browsing.
An app store app should be installed as an app. It has no business being specially handled by a browser.
That’s what you get when you turn a browser into a mini OS: the thing’s attack surface increases by orders of magnitude.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
you missed the point of the article, its about apple basically giving users all their location data, and a hi vis jacket when shopping around such that anyone is allowed to access said information on where youve been. its apples fault for taping the website cookies to a unique identifier and allowing any website to access said list.
this has nothing to do with 3rd party apps, but how apple handles other stores in its own browser.