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I see more and more mentions of abusive behaviour by corporations. Google blocking AdWords / Compute accounts, Facebook rejecting ads, and now this. It seems in

I see more and more mentions of abusive behaviour by corporations. Google blocking AdWords / Compute accounts, Facebook rejecting ads, and now this. It seems innovators must navigate around automated systems and/or non-technical employees whenever their product is slightly outside the norm - Usually unsuccessfully. So what's the alternative to entrusting our fates to faceless corps? Distributed apps perhaps?

oblio 8y ago
Normally? Web apps. But people are missing the forest for the trees: yes, the tech is crappy, because it's committee driven tech, but we're using it not for technical reasons, instead we're using it for political reasons. And it's worth doing and stopping promoting the proprietary variants (native apps, basically).
- protomyth 8y ago
  The same companies who run the stores own the browsers that web apps run on.
- yoz-y 8y ago
  Is it worth wasting energy on apps that are technically worse just for political reasons? For some, maybe. Still, on PCs you can always distribute the native applications outside of the stores.
  - EamonnMR 8y ago
    That may not be the case for whatever replaces the PC though.