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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by madeofpalk on Saturday August 13, 2022 @08:51AM (#32449411)
What does this law actually look like? What's the legislation? "You're not allowed to link to a native app from a website"? Are you saying iOS universal links - twitter.com links opening in the twitter app - should be illegal?

I don't understand how you can legislate against this without also banning a bunch of legitimate use cases.

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Re:The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root ... by hef19898 on Saturday August 13, 2022 @09:24AM (#32449648)
We did it with browsers, didn't we? And we rightfully complain when MS is defaulting back to Edge after an update. Sure, LinkedIn, ask me once if I want ro use the app. Accept that I stick to the browser / website and don't make the website experience arbitarily worse on mobile just to nudge me into using your app. Same principle, and honestly a lilegit use case for cookies so that LinkedIn can remember my decision.
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