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Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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Digital purchases are not you buying the product. It's you buying limited and reversible access to the license to download the file. When you agree to the TOS, you agree to this arrangement.
If you want to actually own something, you should be buying a physical copy of it.
If you actually want something, pirate it.
its the only way to actually own anything.
Which is such an absurd and ridiculous thing to say, and its even more absurd and ridiculous we are at this point.
You can also use open source products when available.
Or make it.
Let me know where I can buy my android apps on disk I guess?
Hey the thought of a USB-C flash drive as physical media you can buy for an app sounds cool as actually
You can download APKs from repositories on the web
You are stating the facts of the current situation. However, that is the exact situation that needs to change.
Or (in software) get open source software, so anyone can make a fork of it if the original goes off the rails