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Google and Apple have massively dropped the ball with their app stores, especially Google. They're straight-up malware distributors, plain and simple. They need
by ddevault 6y ago
Google and Apple have massively dropped the ball with their app stores, especially Google. They're straight-up malware distributors, plain and simple. They need to reign in this crap to achieve even a modicum of respectability.
- asadlionpk 6y agoI think it's unfair to put the blame on Apple for this. It's these apps that are finding any loophole they can to track users.
- ddevault 6y agoApple tolerates a great deal of apps tracking users. Tracking users is not against the app store's terms of use. Cell phones have been made into data mining devices thanks entirely to Apple and Google. They can stop it, and they choose not to. The stores ought to have a much stronger focus on review and keeping vendors in line and much less focus on wringing money and data out of consumers. Apple spends their time strong-arming developers into adding microtransactions and other anti-consumer features in the name of their already astronomical bottom line.
- asadlionpk 6y agoI think there needs to be a balance. Too many restrictions are also user-hostile. The only sure way to stop all tracking is just close down the app store and the entire 3rd party ecosystem.