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How mobile apps illegally share your personal data(noyb.eu)

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meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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What stop? They are going to get a fine of $5m euros. Wow. End of that dark pattern. /s

A bigger question is why Android even allows this. This is not possible on iOS and shouldn’t be possible to begin with.

Google is every bit responsible.

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Anonymouse@lemmy.world
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Why does Android allow this? Google is an advertising company.

sent from my Google Pixel

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far_university1990@feddit.de
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Google Pixels are some of the best supported phones for alternative mobile operatings system. Sort of ironic.

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RovingFox@infosec.pub
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To answer the “big question”, “Why Android even allows this” I asume you are taking about the Android versions that are coded to allow this. In this case it is because , well, are coded like this. Why did Google coded their Android version like this? Profit.

Apple, doesn’t code ios like this cuz it is not their big revenue.

I am not sure Google or Apple are the hero in this story. Insinuating Apple does it out of the goodness of their hearts is naive.

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