Oh no
Was likely a honeypot the whole time..
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This is cowardice from Apple, but ICEBlock was not a good app:
This kind of thing is coming for Android as well once Google has converted it to it's own walled garden bullshit.
remember when Tim Apple gifted tRump a golden statue? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Yeah, but are Apple users going to punish Apple for glazing Trump's tiny manhood by not buying Apple products?
Tim Apple certainly doesn't think so.
This is why the web is way better than any app store, yes even with the problems of DNS (DIDs becoming more prevalent cant come fast enough though). Any future phones should have a first class web experience imo.
Edit: I wanna add that browser monopolies are a real threat too. Ladybird is legit on Charlie Kirk's side aka nonpolitical so not a fan of the outlook there. Would love to see KDE fork chromium/blink with valve money and recreate Konquerer and bring back KHTML (I like irony). Valve even has a fork of CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework, electron uses this as well) because of Steam and its ui being a big web app. KDE then has web apps and add them to Discovery, or you can build qt apps. Make it happen valve! And hire me to help lol
It's how I browse Lemmy - I sometimes forget that my home-pinned app, Voyager, isn't actually from the app store.
What the fuck is a DIDs?
Direct Inward Dialing, or basically a VOIP phone number.
I know that's not what they meant, but DID is already an established term in IT.
Only so many TLAs you can invent haha
I had to look it up too
Apparently it stands for “decentralized identifiers”
From what I’m gathering it’s a client based web protocol That works in conjunction with DNS
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the USA Goverment probably forced them to remove it
not probably; the doj forced apple to remove it and apple caved: https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/
ofc
They probably just hinted. These companies are eager to please Trump. Remember the trophy Tim Apple gave Trump? Capitalists love fascism.
oh yeah,makes sense tho
No, they don't have to. The corporations are the ones who want to control everyone. The U.S government is just a tool for them. The politicians are basically just actors at this point.
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Does anyone remember how the Devs from there didnt want to release for Android because ApPlE iS sOoOo mUcH mOoOrE sEcUrE
Get rekt.
There's a similar app for Android.
Same problems
Not open source for once
Needs to be a website, would be best on i2p, but i fear no one would be able to figure out how to get to it.
You can use a I2P proxy for access via the clearnet. Additionally, many people can set up I2P proxies that can only being used to access that site. Take one down, there's a bajillion others to choose.
I2P proxy
With the current political weather, you're going to want the client anonymity protection. All they need to do is run a handfull of proxies, and they'll narrow down your house/phone as ICE targets.
We're beyond the nahh nahh can't get me because i'm not sharing illegal files, you'll get trucked off like the immigrants.
If they can log you reporting ICE to a website, you're toast.
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This shouldn’t be on the app store. It gives the US government too much access to pull data from it, or order it pulled down. This should be a web app hosted outside the US that can be accessed by any device and can be obscured by VPN access so the regime can’t persecute participants. Apps pull way too much data from phones that ICE can subpoena.
Disclaimer: The app is closed source, so all we can go off is the developer's word, although the fact the government removed it is a strong indicator they don't have access to data from the app
The developer stated they do not even retain any identifying data, so the only data the government could get is public anyway. Through Apple they'd be able to see who downloaded it, and likely when it was used. Your defense would be easy enough though: "I just wanted to make sure the libs weren't harassing our ~~fascist~~ patriotic ICE agents near me"
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