• donfranklin@alien.top
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    1 year ago

    Question to everyone: Are there any particular apps/programs, you would want to sideload?

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      Lol, the legitimate answer for the majority of people is going to pirating any apps and content they don’t want to pay for.

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        Probably, but those people wouldn’t have paid in the first place. Also pirating iOS apps isn’t as trivial as some might think.

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      1 year ago
      • Actual alternative browsers is the big one for me, I want real WebExtension-support
      • Cloud gaming
      • Programming language interpreters
      • I have a friend that says they want porn apps, so for my friend, that
      • Anything requiring NFC card emulation besides the few blessed use cases Apple graciously allow
      • Proper photo backups (apps that aren’t Photos.app can’t automatically backup, you have to manually launch them)
      • Emulators
      • Open source software, because the vast majority of projects don’t have any actual income stream to pay for developer accounts
      • Anything that Apple deems is already “OS functionality”, see the MDM app crackdown a while back
      • etc.
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        Who would want a porn app that has more permissions to track everything you do?

        This is this weirdest one for me

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          Apps have worse ability to track you than a browser, not better.

          • no possibility of using third party cookies
          • no possibility to fingerprint you using what modifications your extensions do to the DOM

          The only extra information they get about you is a consistent but unique (as in not possible to correlate) identifier, meaning they know its the same device accessing the app that it was the other day as well. But they often know this from IP on the web anyway, and since it can’t be correlated, it doesn’t tell them much.