Very much unrelated but I recently read samsung’s smart monitor/tv privacy policy and it says they can record EVERYTHING you do on it and devices connected to it including programs or games you use and you can’t opt out of this short of foregoing smart features (except screen casting) altogether. There’s also an option (that doesn’t look optional in their ui) that lets them automatically process that data.
I’d heard those things were ridiculous but didn’t imagine this much
Isn’t that how fdroid worked for a long time?
Edit: although it doesn’t make sense to me for play store to do the same without the source code available
Edit 2:
The reason is that they forced new apps AND apps for Android TV to use App Bundles https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle This type of release cannot be installed as it but can be used to generate the apk files. In order to do so, the Play Store has to sign on the fly.
Not buying it. They could let the dev sign evey combination before uploading. They’ll be caching them anyways
I don’t see why they wouldn’t. No way to verify I guess but it’s really hard to think Amazon wouldn’t come up with a system equivalent or better than what I did while reading this thread.
I imagine it’d be a one time convenience thing, or maybe you could open amazon and click ‘set up this device again’ or something and it reactivates
When you post a review the expectation is that you’re contributing to the site and can easily reverse this. Compiling everything in a database and putting it on github permanently is not part of the deal, and applying this licence to it without your consent is just outragous:
Database Contents License (DbCL) Summary: Waive all rights in the individual Contents of a Database licensed under the ODbL
If Facebook did this there would be massive outcry.
I’m so sick of being stressed about the same thing over and over again. There needs to be a large scale investigation on the people that keeps trying to push this. I’m shocked there isn’t a constant media outrage to match these attacks. And I don’t hear anybody talking of codifying encryption integrity neither. It’s always just privacy experts discovering such attacks at the last minute seemingly by chance and trying to rally people against it in time. Does nobody in positions of power who care to stop these?
These kinds of things never happen to me, could it be because I have all the tracking stuff disabled?? /s