You mean in the same way that they protect Safari users on the Mac right now?
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Apple Says It Stopped $7 Billion in Fraudulent Transactions in Last 4 Years
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That's what government bodies do. You made such a ridiculously broad statement.
Tariffs, taxes, regulation, workers and consumer rights ad nauseum, this is government 'messing', with the free market.
You do realise that this "gov body" is actually elected by the people in EU? If they do stuff the majority does not agree with they will be replaced by someone else. Its funny how its nearly like free market competition 😉
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who decides if it’s free and if the competition is valid
oh also while you’re at it can you define those things perfectly too
I know we're all busy these days, but if you don't read these posts carefully enough you can miss the jokes.
The f#"king irony. The biggest frauds are the large multinational corporations scheming to avoid paying taxes. And yes, Apple is indeed one of the them.
Nearly $500 billion lost yearly to global tax abuse by corporations
If the app is important to their work, meaning they're using it now, they already have it installed and paid the apple tax already. They aren't going to have to side load anything cause they already have the app. There isn't any pressure to goto any alt app store. And no reason for apple to delete the app from the users device.
More reasonable to assume it is paid by the user when they pay the premium for the device.
Step 1 file lawsuit
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Step 3 profit.
You forgot step 2, you have to win the lawsuit.
But, we have rights to do whatever we want. Apple is the Evil one, not the developer, customers or anyone else who does bad. We demand our rights to let these folks do bad things. After all we are the smart ones./s I checked my security systems numbers for last week. Over 13,000 fraud tracking ads blocked. Half a dozen critical security tracking by those ads blocked. Those numbers not counting the already blocked ads by apps such as Safari. But hey, those folks are just trying to make a Buck. Be careful for what one asks for.
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I would just point out that the standard line in these parts in response to someone wanting to install apps from outside the App Store is to 'just get an Android phone,' to the thunderous applause of the masses, but somehow 'just get a different app' or 'not get the app' isn't good enough.
So just stay inside the App Store? No one is forcing you outside. If an app you want isn't available there, just get a different app.
Blimey! This whataboutism is getting tiresome. Name one, *ONE*, essential app for android that isn't on the PlayStore. Not including any app banned from the PlayStore.
Android has sideloading. Y'all don't see users abandoning the PlayStore in droves.
Any developer with at least half a brain would have their app on the AppStore--if they could--instead of sideload only. You don't ignore billions of potential customers just because Apple want's 30% of the cut. 70% of a humungous pie is more than 100% of a tiny pie.
yes maam I am really Google support please download this support app from reallyiamgoogle.in to give us access to your device so we can analyse the issue.
Pretty sure there are more EU people that don't care about their data and rather have these stupid cookie popups go away from websites.
You missed my point completely.
the subject of the answer to your question is what I'm voicing my opinion about.
The cookie popup is a terrible solution to a fair problem. And the root cause of the problem was not caused by the EU, but instead a massive industry of tracking people with cookies to show them adds for junk they were never gonna buy in the first place. But it’s there now. And because some companies didn’t want to play nicely and care about people's privacy ALL websites are now required to have it - also websites that would only use cookies for perfectly legit purposes.
Plus the pop up could be less annoying if it presented the users with three equally accessible options:
1) Sure just track me everywhere and show me adds for anything I ever search for
2) Only give me cookies for cookies required to make the site work
3) No cookies at all
But they don’t. You get the “allow all” with a big green button and the other options requires 7 clicks. I'm pretty sure THAT was not what the EU intended, but instead how websites that are funded by adds try to nudge in the tracking so they can keep their business.
All the more reason to not trust the type of people who created the solution.
Didn't say the root cause was by EU.
Unfortunately.
Again, all the more reason to not trust the kind of people who created this solution.