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Re:Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking ap... by kevincox on Sunday February 25, 2024 @08:01AM (#39500448)
I hate to say it but at some point it is their device and they can install malware if they want to. I think it is good to put up some warnings and make particularly dangerous permissions particularly hard to give. But at some point it is my device and you need to get out of my way.
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Re:Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking ap... by growse on Sunday February 25, 2024 @08:16AM (#39500554)
If them installing malware had zero impact on the rest of us, sure.

Meanwhile, in the real world, externalities exist.

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Re:Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking ap... by TeMPOraL on Sunday February 25, 2024 @03:03PM (#39504234)
Yes, but one of the major externalities in this context is security industry smothering every computing platform, turning it from a bicycle for the mind into a TV for the mind.
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