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I have the same mentality as you. But, rather than form an opinion on whatever EU regulation is being interpreted as "requiring" these steps from Google et al,
by ragnese 1y ago
I have the same mentality as you. But, rather than form an opinion on whatever EU regulation is being interpreted as "requiring" these steps from Google et al, I think I'm going to assert that it's a red herring.
The real issue, IMO, is that it's still too hard to distribute and install applications on my general-purpose computing devices! You can't be on Google's app store if you aren't a "real business" with a physical address and everything? Fine. Let's just distribute our apps on F-Droid, or by just releasing APKs in our GitHub pages, etc.
At least that's still possible with Android. But who knows how much longer they'll even allow that?
- LPisGood 1y agoI think the issue may be thinking of your phone, running a non-open OS, as a general-purpose computing device.
- braiamp 1y agoYeah, if you have a market that can be installed by the user without passing through a marketplace. The EU regulation gets blamed, but that's not the actual issue.
- whimsicalism 1y agoPresumably F-Droid is subject to the same regulatory requirements, so in this case it is directly the regulation to blame.
- iAMkenough 1y agoF-Droid isn’t in the same business, and doesn’t sell apps, so it’s not subject to the same regulatory requirements.
- o11c 1y agoF-Droid has apps with the "ads" anti-feature, so this probably applies to them.
- iAMkenough 1y agoI think it’d apply to the app owner. F-Droid isn’t in the advertising business either, doesn’t get any revenue. That feature flag just changes what is allowed to appear in search results.
- whimsicalism 1y agoThe DSA applies to > all online intermediaries and platforms operating within the EU
- phatfish 1y ago[flagged]