Congress’s moves against TikTok threaten freedom of speech and are grounded in baseless anti-Chinese hysteria. That dangerous fearmongering attitude appears to be becoming bipartisan consensus.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    8 months ago

    but if the app is already on the device it’s not going anywhere

    Google can remotely remove and install apps, even without user notice. I mean that it is a current (old) ability of their preinstalled software.
    But also, people change phones, or sometimes reset it.

    Plus it’s a free app so at least with Android it’s easy enough to side load it or get it from a website like APKPure or somewhere else

    Not sure how many of them would try that. Most average people don’t know how to use their phone, only how to use the services made for them. Or at least that’s how I see it nowadays.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Not sure how many of them would try that. Most average people don’t know how to use their phone, only how to use the services made for them. Or at least that’s how I see it nowadays.

      They’re one YouTube video away from VPN and APKPure.

      Google can remotely remove and install apps, even without user notice.

      TIL. Time to think a little harder about de-googling.