Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by nodamage on Thursday January 25, 2024 @07:22PM (#39137365)

Sandboxing insufficiently addresses this problem as permissions can be granted by the user for legitimate purposes and then once granted they could be abused to violate user privacy.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by jamil7 on Thursday January 25, 2024 @10:21PM (#39138532)

Yes, but this can already happen for an app in the App Store.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by nodamage on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:00AM (#39139639)

The key difference of course is the App Store can take direct action against that app in such a scenario.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by jamil7 on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:19AM (#39139730)

I guess I'm struggling to see how there's any difference here, can you give an example?

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by nodamage on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:19AM (#39140066)

I'm quite not sure what you're asking for an example of?

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