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Sounds good, but enforcing it how? The only party here that can do the enforcing is the Google/Apple/Microsoft App Store. I'm not sure they all have the right i
by dweinus 3y ago
Sounds good, but enforcing it how? The only party here that can do the enforcing is the Google/Apple/Microsoft App Store. I'm not sure they all have the right incentives to expend the effort to enforce that in a consistent and user-friendly way. Otherwise would have already.
- jstummbillig 3y ago> The only party here that can do the enforcing is the Google/Apple/Microsoft App Store Sounds good to me, though I think there should be a second component, which would be app sdks: Make designing with conditional permissions in mind a first class citizen, and create clear guidelines, as to how to do that, and why you really, really should do that. > I'm not sure they all have the right incentives to expend the effort to enforce that in a consistent and user-friendly way. Otherwise would have already. Alas, this is probably where legislation would so some convincing (see gdpr)
- cmdli 3y agoApple already enforces this, at least to some extent. If you just tell the user “you cannot use our app without allowing us to track you”, your app will get denied from the App Store. Apple is incentivized to do this because they get their value charging access to the ecosystem, and so it’s in their incentive to make sure their ecosystem is nice to users.