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What Happened to Running What You Wanted on Your Own Machine? (hackaday.com)
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Legally, Google and Apple would likely distinguish between shovelware/scams and malware.

How many App Store/Google Play apps are cracking the OS's bounds? …Probably some, but very few, and this is what lawyers would point to, asserting downloading a low quality app is “user choice”