Christina WarrenKinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.
Gabriel Viso Carrera@film_girl Google is also trying to protect ICE as a vulnerable group https://www.404media.co/google-calls-ice-agents-a-vulnerable-group-removes-ice-spotting-app-red-dot/
@gabriel oh I don’t doubt it! Both are extremely gross.
@film_girl It's quite upsetting, not sure what feasible alternative can be out there.
�@gabriel @film_girl on mobiles? i admit there is only stuff for techies. whereas on the computer? hell linux is so mainstream that i switched to BSD
@utf_7 @film_girl I am used to custom ROMs, but they're not going to be mainstream unless we keep on this path for decades.
As Google is going to restrict sideloading on commercial Android, this is concerning because group safety like the one addressed by ICE Block / Red Dot is not going to work if only people on Graphene OS or-the-like can install the app.
TobyBartelsAt least you can sideload on Android. Unfortunately, Red Dot doesn't have a direct link to the APK on their website https://www.red-dot.app/ ; in fact they still have the links to the app stores, so hopefully they'll fix that.
Daniel Quinn@gabriel @film_girl a decent alternative would be a web app. It's easy to pull an app from your store, but a normal website is a lot harder to block, especially if you're flexible with domain names.