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Linux in California is in deep trouble - The Bryant Review

@Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

That bit about requiring app stores to query an online account to get the users age, that’s probably the most concerning part.

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@RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

Good thing that isn’t what was passed.

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@Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

Strictly speaking the text is “A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched” and the video didn’t address the “or a covered application store” part, whatever that means.

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@Archr@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

The bill does describe what a covered app store is. Here is a link in case anyone wants to read it. …legislature.ca.gov/…/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_i…

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“Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application. Meaning basically, from Apt, RPM, or Pacman.

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@Archr@lemmy.world · Mar 10

Yup, that is what it says. This will all depend on what the courts (assuming this even gets there) decide an application is. Maybe we should move more towards package managers only providing libraries and utilities. And not full-blown applications. Then rely on Flatpak and appimages (or snaps :-1:) for actual apps. It would be better for security anyways.

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