I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
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Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
#2Shitty. I wonder what kind of profit they make per successful scam.
Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
#3And yet, we can't have side loaded apps because somehow that would make the App Store worse. Phooey!
Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
#4And yet, we can't have side loaded apps because somehow that would make the App Store worse. Phooey!
This is not the gotcha you think it is. Imagine how awful the apps we would be forced to sideload would be, if companies like the one that made this dongle were allowed to make them.
Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
#5And yet, we can't have side loaded apps because somehow that would make the App Store worse. Phooey!
This is not the gotcha you think it is. Imagine how awful the apps we would be forced to sideload would be, if companies like the one that made this dongle were allowed to make them.
Ah yes, the many apps poor Android users are forced to sideload.
As an Android user myself, so far I'm up to...zero?
Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not the gotcha you think it is. Imagine how awful the apps we would be forced to sideload would be, if companies like the one that made this dongle were allowed to make them.
Ah yes, the many apps poor Android users are forced to sideload. As an Android user myself, so far I'm up to...zero?
You are correct in lampooning the word "force" but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. The point is still valid. Also, it seems obvious that the danger is in long-term ecosystem implications. "I haven't had to so far" is irrelevant.
Android users had/have(?) to side-load Fortnite. Depending on who you are that might feel like being "forced." Is your argument "If you feel like you are forced to use some app you are wrong and should just stop" or is it "If an app gets big enough that a lot of people feel forced to side-load it, then it earned the right not to abide by any platform holder policies."
Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
#7The saluspa from "bestway" demands your location before allowing you to setup wifi remote control of the portable hot tub on the android app. I wonder how on android I can spoof the location used by an app, or if anyone figured out if you can control it without the app.
I set it up away from my house and use a separate wifi network but it pissed me off.
Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not the gotcha you think it is. Imagine how awful the apps we would be forced to sideload would be, if companies like the one that made this dongle were allowed to make them.
Ah yes, the many apps poor Android users are forced to sideload. As an Android user myself, so far I'm up to...zero?
Presumably you don’t have any shitty hardware like this cable.
Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not the gotcha you think it is. Imagine how awful the apps we would be forced to sideload would be, if companies like the one that made this dongle were allowed to make them.
Ah yes, the many apps poor Android users are forced to sideload. As an Android user myself, so far I'm up to...zero?
If you own a mainstream android device, you're probably not going to ever have to.
If you have something a little weirder, the app store often will not let you install an app which doesn't state compatibility. Sideloading the APK more often than not works fine.
Also, there's alternative sources like F-Droid which have stuff you can't get in the Google app store - ad-free Youtube apps - that will never be allowed on the Google app store.
Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads
#10The saluspa from "bestway" demands your location before allowing you to setup wifi remote control of the portable hot tub on the android app. I wonder how on android I can spoof the location used by an app, or if anyone figured out if you can control it without the app. I set it up away from my house and use a separate wifi network but it pissed me off.
Android apps used to need "location" access for bluetooth discovery. https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/19/android-12-apps-won...