AssholeDesign

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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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[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why the Web Integrity API is terrifying to me.

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah and imagine if Google decided they don't like your small business and ruins your livelihood overnight.

In no time you'll lose your house to a bank, all because a company that you have little association with chose to.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can’t even imagine what pernicious elements they can add to it to bog down someone’s website too. They don’t even have to introduce it on purpose, if it’s just a byproduct they can shrug and not worry about it. It’s shocking how much traffic you lose if your website takes three seconds to load.

Everyone should switch to Firefox/Mullvad