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Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies (www.newsweek.com)
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Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies::NoThanks was temporarily suspended from the Google Play app store due to a line in its description speaking about Israel.

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[–] Zummy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’m an iPhone user and I really enjoy my iPhone, but understand that Apple is perfect either. If you like side-loading apps you can forget about that on the iPhone. Additionally, there’s plenty of censorship when it comes to China because Apple won’t lose its precious revenue it gets in that Asian market. Personally, I don’t like Google because I don’t believe the make any real attempts to protect your privacy, but understand that Apple isn’t perfect either.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

This is a fair point. Apple definitely has better privacy protection than Android. To me, this was the second most important difference (the first would be Android is more open source even though the version that gets to your phone isn't really that open).

[–] serratur@lemmy.wtf 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

EU has forced apple to allow sideloading

[–] Zummy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but it hasn’t happened yet, and while it certainly will, we don’t know if Apple will bring that everywhere or only in countries where they have to.