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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by iasay on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:49AM (#32165753)
While I agree with this, I'm interested in seeing what the long term security consequences are.

These are all the highest risk API and integration surfaces on mobile devices.

Also I hope Microsoft get pulled into this as well because they're slowly turning Windows into a marketing device.

Edit: as an iOS user I'm optimistic that this will lead to complete device network whitelist capabilities though so you can neuter any apps which circumvent the current browser restrictions. That would destroy a lot of tracking capability instantly and completely stop embedded browser side channel attacks.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by SheinhardtWigCo on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:12AM (#32166889)
> I'm interested in seeing what the long term security consequences are.

Negligible; most large-format computing devices already allow you to do all of these things.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by judge2020 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:39AM (#32167332)
And it tends to be a bad experience for anyone who doesn’t naturally gravitate towards HN when they eventually get malware or unwanted browser adware extensions.
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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by izacus on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:27PM (#32168144)
And the world will continue turning just like it had for the last 50 years of us having general purpose computers without an American at Apple telling us what we're allowed to do with our products.
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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by raesene9 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:18PM (#32167978)
However mobile devices have a dual role (in many people's lives these days) as being the custodian of all their MFA setup. weakening mobile security (which this arguably may do) could have an impact there.

Also "large format computing devices" are moving more to the lockdown model, at least partially due to the security problems inherent in allowing end users to install/run whatever they want :)

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by permo-w on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:46AM (#32178221)
exactly. this law is the EU forcing companies to make phones more like PCs. this is brilliant news and a big step back from the powerless dystopia we've all been wandering towards
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