Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s...
by nkrisc on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @04:23AM
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So now people who use Amazon are the enemy?
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s...
by megaloblasto on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @08:50AM
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People who use amazon are part of the misguided masses.
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s...
by zettabomb on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @04:30AM
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You're comparing buying stuff from Amazon... to fascism? Your moral compass is a bit extreme.
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s...
by anthk on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @07:08AM
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Amazon has remotely deleted purchased books from customers. And, the irony, 1984 among them.
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s...
by rv3392 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:13AM
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I get where you're coming from, but I think you need to understand that the vast majority of people (conservatively maybe >95%) are perfectly fine with using Amazon. If you just start metaphorically punching all of them you won't convince them of anything. I don't think you can really make something socially poisonous that way without a significant group of people, in socially powerful positions, already agreeing with you.
I think you're overestimating how many people think like you on both of these topics (iOS/Android and Amazon).
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and s...
by BlueTemplar on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @08:27AM
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Not long ago the vast majority of people were also perfectly fine with smoking (and even second hand smoking) and using asbestos.
But sure, what other kind of approach do you suggest that would work better to, say, kick them out of the EU ?
We're in the paradox of tolerance territory at this point : you don't waste time debating fascists, instead you punch them ; in the same manner, you don't waste time being 'understanding' of Amazon users, instead you publicly shame them and escalate if they don't change their ways.
(Annoyingly, we cannot do the same with iOS / Android (yet), notably because Google has been so good at "slow-boiling the free software frog" that many developer-years has been wasted on the likes of AOSP / F-droid instead of building alternatives to Android itself, and so the alternatives cannot be recommended yet to non-hackers.)