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Can you install anything from the windows store without a Microsoft account, or from google play without a google one? I assume this is already the state of aff
by freehorse 2y ago
Can you install anything from the windows store without a Microsoft account, or from google play without a google one? I assume this is already the state of affairs since ever, but except iOS all the rest allow you to install stuff outside their stores.
- rkharsan64 2y agoYou can install things from Windows/Microsoft Store without an account.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoI’m sure it has forced me to login. I suppose I could have fallen for some dark pattern in the UI though. God I hate what this industry has become.
- freehorse 2y agoI am also pretty sure that I thought I had to log in years ago I had windows. Probably also fell victim of the UI.
- throwaway290 2y agoThe point is you are not going to be allowed to even install windows without an account to make use of the great privilege of using a walled garden app store. And no one on this forum really needs app store when homebrew exists
- Nab443 2y agoJust a matter of time. Look at where their interest are. Apple will probably be second on this, but if it happens it will be for both and the argument of security will be cried out loud at whoever complains.
- freehorse 2y agoIt is not all a bad outcome, then anybody who wants to do any serious work on a computer will be forced to use linux.
- nosioptar 2y agoYes, you can install shit off the play store without a google account. I use the Aurora Store to do so. (Aurora store might log in to a google account behind the scenes, but I don't have to have a google account to use it.)