I’m curious to understand how Google defines “malicious apps” that they’re using as the justification for this.

Conceivably, google revoking a certificate will mean an app installed outside of google play, will stop working for users.

How do they feel about celebrite? And the other companies that violate user privacy as their sole reason for existing. Will they still get “permission” for their apps? Seems like a great way to protect users by not issuing one to them…

Ukraine still kicking ass, too

Bluesky is weird to me. I tried to use it for all of 15 minutes. One of the recommended feeds was called “Blacksky”, which is a feed specifically tailored for black users of Bluesky. I’m perfectly fine with that. I was, completely innocently, asking if there were other feeds based on race, similar to blacksky. I was threatened with a ban for racism. My question was very literally phrased “I see that blacksky exists, does the platform also have other race-specific feeds for users? Or only this one? It’s the only one that was recommended to me which seems strange for a new user.”

That’s not even the best part. The best part is that some games will take screenshots automatically, by default. Some of the photos were then also uploaded automatically to Xbox cloud. Their automated system then banned players for sharing “prohibited” content.

Recently this happened with Baldur’s Gate 3.

https://www.slashgear.com/1511121/xbox-auto-upload-feature-how-turn-off-avoid-banned/