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> No informed consent or prompt to opt-in. Are users giving informed consent for Google's ability to remotely disable Android apps or Apple's ability to do the
by GeekyBear 3y ago
> No informed consent or prompt to opt-in.
Are users giving informed consent for Google's ability to remotely disable Android apps or Apple's ability to do the same on iOS?
The ability to disable malware as it is discovered seems to be a very common pattern.
If you include the bundled malware scanners on MacOS and Windows, it's taking place on them as well.
- JohnFen 3y ago> Are users giving informed consent for Google's ability to remotely disable Android apps or Apple's ability to do the same on iOS? No, but we expect Google to be user-hostile. We expect the opposite of Mozilla.
- okasaki 3y agoThat's an expectation that hasn't been sensible for a decade...
- ezfe 3y agoDisabling apps is different from disabling non-verified extensions. The linked article addresses that Mozilla already has the capability to handle discovered malware, which is separate from this issue.
- Hizonner 3y agoIf I want a browser that acts like it comes from Google, then I will use fucking Chrome. Lots of idiotic user-hostile things are "common patterns".