Louis Rossmann made a good Video about this.
TL;Dr: when some company does something shitty, instead of just fleeing to the next big company and hoping that they will not do the same and blaming everyone who is still using their stuff of the old company, you need to actually fight back against the company doing it. Privacy oriented people are few and far beetween, so the „Voting with you wallet” thing will not even make a .01 mark on their revenue
Aurora rules. (and doesn’t track you)
If only someone finally forced iOS to be open for other stores
It is if you live in Europe.
How has that worked out? I have been curious how much Apples security depended on owning the only allowed app store.
Spoiler alert, it didn’t. There’s many ways to publish malware on any official store. Not straightforward, but always possible.
I found this list:
https://www.octalsoftware.com/blog/ios-app-store-alternatives
But no evidence of significant usage of 3rd part ios app stores yet.
You could just use something that isn’t iOS
Louis Rossmann made a good Video about this. TL;Dr: when some company does something shitty, instead of just fleeing to the next big company and hoping that they will not do the same and blaming everyone who is still using their stuff of the old company, you need to actually fight back against the company doing it. Privacy oriented people are few and far beetween, so the „Voting with you wallet” thing will not even make a .01 mark on their revenue
Droid-ify is also great.
WTF is that last search result though 🫣