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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Google deleted an open source app I love (install from F-Droid) for being "Fake" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Strongly advice you to just turn off Play Protect. It sends your list of installed apps to Google (not that the Android as a whole will stop doing that even after you turn it off). They don't do shit.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh woah. Can't let Google know what apps I have installed.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s really a shame that that is even normalized. Why is it their business to know what apps are installed on a personal device? Just one more way to fingerprint users and advertise to them.

[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I remember arguing with a google fanboi about Google's diktat for Android apps to not have a shutdown button. He was waxing lyrical about how Google PBUH is all knowing and works in mysterious ways. I said google does this so that you can't turn off its spyware shit.