Taylor LorenzNov 24, 2022
“Apple and Google need to seriously start exploring booting Twitter off the App Store,” said @esqueer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/24/twitter-musk-reverses-suspensions/ #tech #technology #twitter #elon #twittermigration #twittermigrate
‘Opening the gates of hell’: Musk says he will revive banned accounts

A Twitter poll posted by Elon Musk shows 72 percent support granting “general amnesty” to accounts suspended for harassment, abuse and misinformation.

The Washington Post
Show threadRairiiNov 24, 2022
@taylorlorenz @esqueer we can argue all day about how bad it is that this is possible, though :/
Show threadBrian HoughNov 24, 2022
@Rairii @taylorlorenz @esqueer I don’t mind that they moderate their own app stores. I think that’s reasonable; the problem is on iOS, where side loading isn’t a thing and it’s App Store or bust for 99% of the user base.
Show threadRairiiNov 24, 2022
@brianhough @taylorlorenz @esqueer the fact that the Play Store uses APIs that alternative app stores can't use (without root/etc) is also a problem
Show threadDianne Hackborn

@Rairii @brianhough @taylorlorenz @esqueer

Which APIs? I think the only one of significance is being able to directly install an app without going through the platform's confirmation dialog. Any pre-installed store can get this permission, it just isn't available to things not pre-installed, which seems reasonable?

We did improve this recently where non-pre-installed apps can now install updates to apps they had previous installed without confirmation.

Nov 24, 2022 at 11:39pmWeb
Show threadRairiiNov 27, 2022
@hackbod @brianhough @taylorlorenz @esqueer Directly installing an app was what I was thinking of.
Show threadDianne HackbornNov 27, 2022

@Rairii

Ah okay so you'd like an AOSP feature where you could say "allow this app to silently install other apps without me knowing about it"?

(Just checking, that is something I personally would be super uncomfortable with having. It's better now with runtime permissions, at the very least this could not be used for installing pre-Marshmallow apps where permissions are shown to the user at install time.)

Show threadRairiiNov 27, 2022
@hackbod if multiple taps need to be done in third-party app stores then it should be the same for the play store, IMO.
Show threadDianne HackbornNov 27, 2022

@Rairii

This isn't at all about Play Store. It is that privileged pre-installed apps can get additional permissions, since they are part of the device and vetted by the OEM. (Note that an app you side-load is by definition completely untrusted.)

So any pre-installed store can be trusted in this way: Play Store, Samsung App Store, Amazon App Store, etc.