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Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps... by ayewo on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:30PM (#35603090)
I wouldn’t call it propaganda. Facebook’s reputation in this regard hasn’t exactly been stellar because they’ve been caught red-handed spying on users at scale [1] [2].

And Apple was swift to limit the damage of their spying by banning [1] their app from the app store which is why the point the gp is making is sound. The app store is two things: a (heavy-handed) review process and a marketplace. Without the Apple app store review process, you’d end up with what looks like the Google Play store.

So it’s not hard to imagine Facebook disappearing completely from the Apple app store (to avoid being bogged down by Apple’s policies) forcing users to sideload the app directly from their website to “get their fix”.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

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Re:iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps... by kaba0 on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:09PM (#35603605)
Why would the technical solution that solved the privacy issue not still solve it just because it is now sideloaded? It’s not like the sandbox will suddenly get disabled for sideloaded apps..
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