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Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”
Submitted 5 months ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3m2am5hhvxk2w
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Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I wish we could use a “regular” app like Waze and start reporting “icy weather” as code for ICE. I mean we can, but idk how to make it a thing. Kinda how they were using “winter boots” as code on TikTok for ICE to get around the censors.
raman_klogius@ani.social 5 months ago
FAANG is today as VW Adidas and Hugo Boss was in the third Reich.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
It’s really sickening that every corporation has thrown in with the new fascist regime.
At least these assholes used to pretend to be “not absolutely awful”. Now they’re just mask-off oppressors.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 5 months ago
It’s not that it’s not profitable for them.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
It’s no accident that capital is aligned with fascist. Line must go up.
frunch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Line must go up.
It’s such a stupid axiom but it explains everything perfectly
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 5 months ago
The corporate sector will always back a fascist government.
ISOmorph@feddit.org 5 months ago
Call me a conspiracy nut job , but I honestly think we live in a new age where it’s the other way around. Megacorps are creating a situation where governments are set up to fail and then swoop in to save the day “alien earth” style, so everyone can be forced into lifetime indentured service.
lowleekun@ani.social 5 months ago
Walled garden = poop town
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 5 months ago
it’s a shame android is getting a walled garden too now.
lowleekun@ani.social 5 months ago
A necessary step for chat control i guess
tomkatt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fuckers.
sundray@lemmus.org 5 months ago
objectionable contentSheer fucking cowardice
Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
From the heroes who bravely took away the headphone jack
plz1@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why not just make it a website? We’re not doing censoring yet, right?
SecureTaco@lemmy.asc6.org 5 months ago
The creator used Apple (iOS) exclusive privacy features to run the service. They commented on it publicly a few times. Also why there was never an android version.
chunes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
'cause most people are tech illiterates stuck in the walled garden.
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Tech companies have never been our friends.
can@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
jontree255@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m surprised it stayed up as long as it did. I thought Apple would have taken it down within days.
Anyways I’ve seen this as a non app alternative: www.stopice.net
fluxion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Back to the WWW just like the good ol days
ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Would I be paranoid to use a VPN while visiting this site? (And others like it) god only knows if IP’s visiting the site could be uncovered…
Yeah, I’m probably being paranoid…
0x0@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Would I be paranoid to use a VPN
Or tor.
jontree255@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not a bad idea. Just make sure your VPN doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement or sell your data otherwise.
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I mean yeah honestly probably the best, but I’ll take any chance to rant against the idea of walled garden tech
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
What’s objectionable about it Apple? Hmm?
ceenote@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They can only buy a politician so many gold statues.
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
And this is why having 3rd party app stores is important. It’s why it matters that Google is killing side loading, if two fucking companies get to decide what you can do on your phone, we’re in a bad spot technology wise
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Webapps for the rescue!
kender242@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Hurd OS? Isn’t that obsolete?” “Not obsolete. Just… illegal.” ~Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Your phone is fucking you no matter what you do.
simplejack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly, this thing should just been a PWA. Making this naive app was dumb.
artyom@piefed.social 5 months ago
Google is not killing sideloading. If the dev is willing to submit to Apple for verification, they’d probably not object to submitting it to Google.
0x0@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Google is not killing sideloading. If the dev is willing to submit
I see…
dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Yes, and then they ban that developer and their apps. It doesn’t matter you can install apps outside of the Play Store, if Google still controls which apps you are allowed to install.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If people were more aware of how to make and install mobile web apps it would be less of a problem.
At least on the iPhone you can still add a site to your screen that can behave a lot like an app, including camera access, location services, and even gyro. And it’s just a website like most “apps” are.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
There is a great app called ‘hermit’ on android that gives you a better wepapp experience. Basically a browser tuned to make we apps act native.
shrugs@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Most people don’t care about any of that. Firefox with AdBlock to surfe YouTube without ads? Nah, they want the app, which is basically the same, but at least they can’t block ads. I stopped trying to understand
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Sideloading” is their term, invented to make it sound like something it is not. We should not use this word. The correct word is “installing”.
You don’t “sideload” on Windows when you install software outside of the Microsoft Store™️. There is no real difference or distinction with software on phones, so there is no need for a special word.
Pieplup@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Windows laready has something like this it’s called S mode i think. IT makes it so you can only instlal stuff frmo the windows store, but you can disable it pretty easily.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 5 months ago
“Install” includes installing from an app store no matter how closed down and exlusive. The correct term would be “install from other sources than an app store” which is just clunky. Calling it “sideloading” won’t change that nor will calling it “your mom”. Considering how many corporate-speak terms are in use and how many braindead abbreviations and terms shortened to a word’s last syllable -completely distorting the original meaning- generally are in use, the term “sideloading” is pretty irrelevant. Either lose your mind listening to the bullshit people permanently are emitting or just live with it…
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Not to defend it, but the first time I encountered the term was when BlackBerry released their Playbook tablet. It ran their bbos10 and they created an android emulator so you could run some android apps. The process of installing the apk into the emulator was called sideloading.
I miss BlackBerry is all I really wanted to say.
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Not yet.
jonne@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I can see Microsoft moving to the same sort of thinking as well. Apple already made Mac OS users jump through hoops when you want to install something from the internet or even through a third party package manager like homebrew.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
We’re in a bad spot technology wise
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, people should have listened to the people warning of privacy concerns with online services. Now that your data is valuable, companies will do anything to extract it from you.
Stop using those products, de-Google, install Linux, use self-hosted solutions.
It will take some effort to switch. You get to decide how much effort you’re willing to expend in order to not sacrifice all of your privacy and control of your digital lives.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
We rapidly need to switch Linux Mobile. PostmarketOS and Mobian are the two most promising projects, and I would highly recommend anyone reading this to donate to them if you have the means.
Both projects directly use your donations to hire developers to build and polish the critical essentials to get this alternative viable as a daily driver.
quitethekiwi@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Just technology wise? I think it’s a little deeper than just technology unfortunately
jonne@infosec.pub 5 months ago
And the open source movement is such a blind spot to the ‘left’ as well, even though technology freedom is critical if you want to be able to organise any type of resistance in the digital space.
Lemmy users largely get it, obviously, but centre left people will happily let themselves get locked into the Apple/Google walled gardens even though you’re just giving that company a ridiculous amount of power over you.
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
No doubt. I’ve gotten to the point where I have like 6 apps on my phone and it’s in lockdown mode on iOS. And I’d be on grapheneOS if I wasn’t required to use iOS for work.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
apple and the us government and ice can all suck a dick