Re:Apple's New Privacy Page
by dagdesheren on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:42PM
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Privacy my ass. Allow me to setup MY phone without a ping back to the mothership, and allow us to side-load apps or download free apps from the store without an apple ID.
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> allow us to side-load apps
It's a feature to me that I can't accidentally download an (potentially hostile) app from a (potentially hostile) app store, but a bug.
> It's a feature to me that I can't accidentally download an (potentially hostile) app from a (potentially hostile) app store, but a bug.
I don't really understand this point. It is not like Android implementation of side load is insecure.
As a user, you need to explicitly enable it in settings. After Android 8 I think, each application that tries to install a application is blocked first and need an explicitly permission too. Even with all that, you still need to explicitly consent installation and upgrade of any sideloaded application. Nothing is automatic.
Re:Apple's New Privacy Page
by t-writescode on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:16PM
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Does Ubuntu phone home during installation? Even for something like ‘increment total install count by one’?