Russia Forces Apple to Remove VPNs From App Store

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Russia Forces Apple to Remove VPNs From App Store

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Something only possible because of Apple’s business practices. They know that they could never do anything similar to Android phones because the APKs would just be hosted everywhere, with cracked ones probably hosted mainly in Russia.

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This is why we should be demanding the ability to sideload and install third party apps and not be locked into one App Store. Literally this.

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Or apple as an American company could you know…. Not give in to our enemies, or better yet shut down in Russia until they stop
The war.

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Funny how they bend over backwards quickly when shitty dictatorships demand stuff of them but act like dicks when the EU demands they comply with their regulations.

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You know you live in a totalitarian shithole when the government is banning VPNs.

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Um you can still configure a VPN profile without an app it’s built into iOS itself. Unless they removed that too.

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So much for user privacy.

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Russia (the government and those that support it) can go fuck themselves

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But muh fiduciary duty to the shareholders

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Except for their troll farm, so they can pretend to be right wing American redditors, right?

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Please sign petition

Apple helps Putin’s censorship. We demand that Apple unblock VPN apps.

https://www.change.org/p/apple-helps-putin-s-censorship-we-demand-that-apple-unblock-vpn-apps

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Nothing new for Apple. They did this for China; why wouldn’t they do this for any other ‘democracy’?

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Good thing you can just download a .ipa and easily sideload it onto— oh wait

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If you can’t install software on your computer, do you really own your device or renting it? Why is Apple blocking side-loading?

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I’m quite sure everyone is onto .ipa file installs on devices and jailbrakes to get around it.
Citizens in restricted countries are usually on top of circumventing official software.

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A glimpse into America’s own future, potentially.

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i think this means VPNs aren’t safe from Russian hackers.

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Wait, so if even Russia, considered an “enemy state” by the West, can force an American company to do this (and china does it too anyways), how long until they do it in the EU and then in the US too?