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You already did. So, how could I -in my limited knowledge and unimportance- dare. Excuse me for breathing your air, your excellence. I promise to leave any unfunded claims and overgeneralized, dubious "questions" to be answered only by you. You're obviously the one with the right capabilities for this sort of intellectual challenge.

I can't say I'd understand what mysterious kind of data it might be that's stored in social media networks but is owned and used by myself. Really - I don't have any data I'd want to make use of stored in any social network, except banal stuff like my last few listens at Music Brainz. Usually you're uploading the sort of data you want to be published to social media. They're not created there, so why would I need a URL other than file:// with a local path attached to access it. I also seriously doubt that klicking "Save as..." really is some secret and complex ritual known only to immortals and the priest caste, nowadays. (I might be wrong here. I just do not have anything to do with mortals or godfood in my daily life.)

But.... but, there is no such thing as local storage. There are just other people's clouds!

...and you should thank them for it. you ingrates! Because, after all they have been granting you the undecieved privilege of deciding for yourselves what software to install for too long. We should all thank Google for taking that burden away from us, soon, as well as Apple who never granted anything to anyone. Not for free, that is, and not much anyway.

Because people are stupid and oderous. No matter what political "ideas" they believe in.

Big tech droid decries "over-regulation". More news at 11.

It's not that it's not profitable for them.

"Install" includes installing from an app store no matter how closed down and exlusive. The correct term would be "install from other sources than an app store" which is just clunky. Calling it "sideloading" won't change that nor will calling it "your mom". Considering how many corporate-speak terms are in use and how many braindead abbreviations and terms shortened to a word's last syllable -completely distorting the original meaning- generally are in use, the term "sideloading" is pretty irrelevant. Either lose your mind listening to the bullshit people permanently are emitting or just live with it...

Did you mean "web site"? Because, according to Cory Doktorov an app is just a website wrapped into enough IP to make it a felony blocking ads in it.

I'll catch the flames and say "religious reasons".

I'd be sexist if I said it was women's nature and blah whatever. I'm sure it's more or less a social matter, nevermind that as far as I know it applies to pretty much any known culture, ancient or actual. The reason might be that humans are not so different actually, no matter what your fucking leaders might tell you. And you, Mr "pickup artist" might notice that I did not refer to the sort of occasion you're talking about. The situation the OP describes is obviously not an invitation to a menage a trois.