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IIRC the app is Australian but founder is Palestinian-Australian
Reminder that Google is on it's third attempt to prevent or limit the installation of APKs outside of the Play Store, meaning they are near the point they can effectively control what apps people run.
When this happens I'm flashing graphene os onto my pixel 9
Do it now, use obtainium, droidfy and aurora. Nearly every app works except google wallet.
My only problem stopping me is I use my phone for work too. Microsoft auth, outlook. Mostly just auth. I was looking it up a bit ago and people said it breaks it for work accounts
I currently use MS Auth on my Graphene OS phone. Have installed Play Services on that profile, though
Not a good idea to mix personal and work devices. I'd recommend getting a cheap budget phone to use for work.
And this is why, we sold have https://joinloops.org/ instead
That's a different type of platform though. Upscrolled = insta, Loops = tiktok.
Not just an alternative to TikTok, but also need one for Google Play, and Android too while we're at it. (Yes, I know they exist. Just making a point)
brb buying an iPhone
'no wait not like that'
No politic here!
De-listed where? It's listed still for me.
I'm guessing it was a regional de-listment and it just wasn't specified.
Being said, this page was enough to make me install the app, still unsure if I wanna use it or not but, I don't wanna risk losing the ability to install the app either.
It's back. It was gone for just a few hours it seems
The more I work for tech companies the more I genuinely end up believing that stuff like this being removed is in fact just incompetence at least 50% of the time
A lot of companies seem to automatically delist things that get mass reported, which makes them subject to interference by armies of paid or unpaid trolls. Hopefully the issue gets corrected but this seems to happen more and more frequently.
The devs confirmed it was delisted. Not sure what its current status is. Seeing mixed messages online so it might be regional delisting or it might have been restored.
I don't have any accounts on the fash friendly state-funded/corpo social platforms, but has anyone seen if the developer has made a statement online since the app got relisted?
Either way,, I wouldn't use this app at this point. Not because of anything the developer has done, rather because Google can man-in-the-middle any version of the app he submits. Might sound a little far fetched, but given the continous fealty to this administration, and Google's deep relationships with Gov entities going back decades...
Well... why trust them to not be supplying whatever alphabet agency with user data?