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>Facebook doesn't use sideloading on the android platform, neither does any of the other big companies. 1. Epic. 2. Unlike Google, Apple each year pours thousa

by krger 3y ago

>Facebook doesn't use sideloading on the android platform, neither does any of the other big companies. 1. Epic. 2. Unlike Google, Apple each year pours thousands of hours of developer effort into making it harder for Facebook to track users without their consent. The difference between "what is allowed in the store" and "what is possible on the device" is greater on iOS.

bpfrh 3y ago
In the case of epic it was not about the privacy settings but about the percentage they had to pay for on every transaction which is a different issue. I do think that it is a rare case that a company decides to not use the official appstore and the risk of all companies switching to their own appstore is minor. Android does restrict more and more things you can do and there seems to be no strong movement to alternative appstores, which makes it difficult to know what impact the strong privacy settings on ios would be with an alternative appstore. I kind of agree that less privacy protection this is a concern, but I think that should be solved by additional privacy laws.
- krger 3y ago
  >In the case of epic it was not about the privacy settings but about the percentage they had to pay for on every transaction which is a different issue. The claim wasn't that nobody was sideloading for privacy settings. The claim was "Facebook doesn't use sideloading on the android platform, neither does any of the other big companies." >I kind of agree that less privacy protection this is a concern, but I think that should be solved by additional privacy laws. Oh, that's a great idea. We should definitely rely on laws alone for this. VC-backed technology firms are well-known for willingly abiding by the spirit of laws—especially privacy laws. They definitely aren't filled with people whose entire job is finding the slimist things they can get away with. Or—and I'm just spitballing here—we could have both the additional privacy laws and also a competitive marketplace where at least one vendor decides to use privacy as a market differentiator while leaving people free to choose to buy from other vendors with other priorities. You should have multiple options, but third parties should not be required to provide you with an option that gives you 100% of what you'd like to have. "I get to choose" does not mean "I get to have a bespoke solution."

by krger 3y ago

bpfrh 3y ago

In the case of epic it was not about the privacy settings but about the percentage they had to pay for on every transaction which is a different issue. I do think that it is a rare case that a company decides to not use the official appstore and the risk of all companies switching to their own appstore is minor. Android does restrict more and more things you can do and there seems to be no strong movement to alternative appstores, which makes it difficult to know what impact the strong privacy settings on ios would be with an alternative appstore. I kind of agree that less privacy protection this is a concern, but I think that should be solved by additional privacy laws.

krger 3y ago
>In the case of epic it was not about the privacy settings but about the percentage they had to pay for on every transaction which is a different issue. The claim wasn't that nobody was sideloading for privacy settings. The claim was "Facebook doesn't use sideloading on the android platform, neither does any of the other big companies." >I kind of agree that less privacy protection this is a concern, but I think that should be solved by additional privacy laws. Oh, that's a great idea. We should definitely rely on laws alone for this. VC-backed technology firms are well-known for willingly abiding by the spirit of laws—especially privacy laws. They definitely aren't filled with people whose entire job is finding the slimist things they can get away with. Or—and I'm just spitballing here—we could have both the additional privacy laws and also a competitive marketplace where at least one vendor decides to use privacy as a market differentiator while leaving people free to choose to buy from other vendors with other priorities. You should have multiple options, but third parties should not be required to provide you with an option that gives you 100% of what you'd like to have. "I get to choose" does not mean "I get to have a bespoke solution."