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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by paulmd on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:17PM (#27259508)
facebook literally already got their hand slapped for abusing the very limited sideloading mechanisms that Apple already provided.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...

This would generalize that and allow them to sideload for everyone. They straight-up would pull out of the app store, block Safari users from the website, and force everyone to sideload a tracker build on day 1.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by saagarjha on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:55PM (#27260706)
Facebook’s apps have significantly more access than their website does, but they still allow users to use the web to access their services.
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by ric2b on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:51AM (#27263270)
> and allow them to sideload for everyone. They straight-up would pull out of the app store, block Safari users from the website, and force everyone to sideload a tracker build on day 1.

I don't understand how people can come up with these crazy hypotheticals when Android has allowed side-loading since forever.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by spiderice on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:09AM (#27265241)
Android allows FB to track people, so why would FB have the need to side load an app on Android? Whereas Apple recently stopped allowing FB to track people in a big way.

I'm not saying the hypothetical is likely to happen, but your argument makes absolutely no sense in this case.

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