• MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wow. Something is actually being done to stop this. I’m shocked, and wish we had this kind of advocacy for human rights here in the USA.

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      1 year ago

      What stop? They are going to get a fine of $5m euros. Wow. End of that dark pattern. /s

      A bigger question is why Android even allows this. This is not possible on iOS and shouldn’t be possible to begin with.

      Google is every bit responsible.

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        To answer the “big question”, “Why Android even allows this” I asume you are taking about the Android versions that are coded to allow this. In this case it is because , well, are coded like this. Why did Google coded their Android version like this? Profit.

        Apple, doesn’t code ios like this cuz it is not their big revenue.

        I am not sure Google or Apple are the hero in this story. Insinuating Apple does it out of the goodness of their hearts is naive.