Preventing this at the app store level is hard [LWN.net]

Preventing this at the app store level is hard

Posted Jul 12, 2026 13:43 UTC (Sun) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Preventing this at the app store level is hard by pizza
Parent article: An update on the scraper situation

>much less require said third parties to

Google is not a random third party in the market anymore.
Google is infrastructure at this point.

And as such Google must be criticized for their actions and regulated if they exploit their market position.

And yes, I can say this and you can do nothing about it. "You get to say that only *after*..." is completely false.
If you say that I can't criticize Google for their actions unless I build a system on my own you are completely wrong.
You are trying to move the goal posts.

>EU laws

Yes, there are many more things to criticize, beyond Google.

>Repealing that would achieve far more freedom

You know, I can be against multiple things at the same time.
There is no need to select and prioritize.

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Preventing this at the app store level is hard

Posted Jul 13, 2026 11:29 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Google is infrastructure at this point.

....Then Google should be able to collect taxes to pay for said infrastructure.

You don't get to have it both ways.

> If you say that I can't criticize Google for their actions unless I build a system on my own you are completely wrong.

No, I'm saying that it is highly naive to expect Google to cater to *your* wants (not even "needs") while you freeload off of their services and rely on what their enormous engineering staff produces.

> There is no need to select and prioritize.

When you have (very) limited resources at your disposal, most folks want to put those to where they will be the most effective. But hey, you do you.