|
|
Log in / Subscribe / Register

Preventing this at the app store level is hard

Preventing this at the app store level is hard

Posted Jul 13, 2026 18:24 UTC (Mon) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Preventing this at the app store level is hard by rgmoore
Parent article: An update on the scraper situation

Google has to stop playing Police and State.

If I punch you in the nose or if I DoS your server there already are more than enough processes in place to make me not do that and punish me if I do it anyway.
There is absolutely no need for restricting what I can run on my device. Except for Google establishing a locked down eco system, of course.

to post comments

Preventing this at the app store level is hard

Posted Jul 14, 2026 7:56 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

+100 to this. Having vast technocratic-corporates act as police, judge and jury, with 0 transparency and (unless you complain on social media and somehow manage to go viral) 0 means of effective appeal is dystopian. Bollocks to that.

Preventing this at the app store level is hard

Posted Jul 20, 2026 1:54 UTC (Mon) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404) [Link] (1 responses)

Google, also, per your logic, can run whatever code they like on their servers, including code that rejects your code from their app store, which runs on their servers.

Google does not police or prevent you from running residential proxies on your phone. They prevent you from placing that code for download _on their servers_ .

Even the most ardent free software folks do not argue that you have a right to be platformed by any platform of your choice.. only to build your own platform.

Sideload your proxy onto your phone to your hearts content - google won't stop you.

Heck, run a whole other OS on the phone - google won't stop you there either.

You are, in fact, arguing that google be forced to run code on their servers at your whim.

Preventing this at the app store level is hard

Posted Jul 20, 2026 5:17 UTC (Mon) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link]

>Google, also, per your logic, can run whatever code they like on their servers

True

> Sideload [...] google won't stop you.

Except they do?

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Over the last couple of years they have been installing a massive amount of anti features to make sideloading harder and harder.
We are at the point where I cannot buy a phone and install what I want right away.
There is absolutely no sign that they will stop here.


Copyright © 2026, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds