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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by ericmay on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:20AM (#28564568)
Why wouldn’t they just force other app stores to pull the app too?
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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by fsflover on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:30AM (#28564667)
Such as F-Droid?
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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by ericmay on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:35AM (#28564712)
Any reason they can’t just block the site? Is F-Droid a good option for this kind of mobile app?

I guess you can say they wind up playing whack-a-mole with new App Store and websites but that doesn’t seem ideal either. Russians can plant something too.

And Google removed it too. So are users downloading it now from 3rd-party app stores?

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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by amarkula on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:38AM (#28574884)
Longer Streisand effect
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