this is why having google sign all the apps that can go on your android is a really bad idea and why we criticize apple for being a closed walled garden. please trust the nerds over the corporations bro.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Do you own an iPhone? Oh, hey, you helped ICE.
Yes, you did.
Fuck the app just make it web based
And then Android could use it too, so many apps should just be websites.
Hasn't the developer been proven to be kind of a dick. Wasn't there some story a while ago about how they weren't really handling the data in the most secure method (Which given the subject matter is kind of the whole point).
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Rebrand it with the same tech as something like "Friend Sightings!" It's not a 1A violation because Apple banned it, it is a 1A violation because the government made them ban it.
This is what sideloading is supposed to prevent
Brings new meaning to Google's decision to (effectively) block side loading on Android
People are so stupid in this country. Do what the EU did and make it law that they have to offer sideloading and other app stores and payment methods.
It should be the law to begin with. This walled garden shit is really just another word for controlling what the user does with the device they purchased and not allowing them to do business with anybody else exclusively to add software without apple's approval and protection racket fee.
Everything is about control. The internet was left open by accident for a while and they are working hard to "fix" it. They are just trying to be slightly less obvious about it than China was. All of the forced AI tools, required apps and stuff like that are just ways to move users away from the open web.
Once most users restrict their Internet usage to ONLY content provided by the large companies (for example, once people no longer click on any Google result), then Internet providers will start granting access to the content from large companies for free and charge a lot more for access to anything else.
In 10, maybe 20 years, we will be needing to tell our internet providers when we change jobs so that they may change which "custom" internet services we get to have access to specifically for work.
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Was there any reason to make this an ios app as opposed to a website hosted outside the US? I'm really not surprised by the removal. What did they expect? All the Tech CEOs came to the inauguration with bags of cash.
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With this and Google stopping side loading in Android, I’m going to be looking hard into Linux phones.
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Back in the aughts I was an apple fanboy. Later they no longer had the edge but I won't say it was completely not an option. Now it is completely not an option.
Just in case, if you're (still) a Nintendo, Sony, Tesla, Disney, Spotify, ... fan, it's not too late to change your mind about them too :)
Totally agree, but what to do? Just forsake all entertainment, media, and technology at this point?
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