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Ah, yes, someone's made a business out of hunting for dmca violations... using an ai based watchdog... and because dmca is "shoot first ask questions later", that makes disruption easy and remedy hard.
DMCA isn't all that unreasonable, though. It's Google's implementation of their DMCA policy that fails everyone. The article explains this further, with how instead of adhering to the 14 day restoration requirement in the DMCA law, Google took 46 days to restore this app last time.
The legal remedy here is for the developer to sue Google alongside the false DMCA company. Unfortunately, Google's response to this kind of thing is to usually ban the developer from Google servers, thereby cutting their future income.
TL;DR Google is the biggest cunt ~~in all of this.~~
It doesn't make sense at Google's scale to review each case individually, easier to just ban everything and review those that appeal.
The DMCA is pretty unreasonable for centralized services.
It makes sense for Google to comply with the law. It would be good for Google to act in good faith, instead of facilitating frivolous spam complaints and preventing their legal resolution through subversive threats to the victim businesses on their platforms.
TL;DR Google is the biggest cunt ~~in all of this.~~
Ftfy
Let me guess, just like the FallOut 2 DMCA a few weeks ago, which Bethesda rescinded after learning about it, some third party that uses AI to search for DMCA violations filed yet another false takedown. Again. Most likely without Microsoft even knowing about it.
EDIT: Its the exact same third party as the one that Bethesda overturned after learning about it earlier. I expect this one to be overturned soon as well.
This is why software downloads should be self hosted, instead of relying on third party distributors.
Thats also why OS vendors shouldnt be able to restrict app stores to their own proprietary one. "Side loading" is essentially a corporatized definition on what should be a right.. Smh.
This is what I'm running into trying to deGoogle, a lot of apps seem to just be on Google Play or a sketchy APK mirror site.
They should at least have sideloading as an option
Aurora Store is good enough for most. It's still on Google Play, but you're not using the Google Play app and you can even pick which version and see an Exodus tracking report before you download.
Rather than finding the same app elsewhere, though, you should be looking for alternative apps on FDroid and the like. Unfortunately though FDroid is terrible for searching for apps, you just kind of have to "know" about the app you're looking for first, somehow..
I would recommend a different front end for fdroid repo like droidify, neo store etc. I haven't used official fdroid app in ages but the 2 above are pretty good. Has many categories to choose from and search works fairly decent as well.
Neo store uses absurdly high amount of system resources. The app itself is laggy, and its quite heavy in background. Droidify is very lightweight compared to neo store.
I have F-Droid and it's good. I tried Aurora Store but it didn't seem to have a search function, just lists of a few apps from random categories. Almost reminded me of browsing Netflix.
It does have search
The easiest solutions which work for me is to use open source alternatives, which can be downloaded directly from developer, use web version of the app, like i do with google documents, or pirate it if it is not available in your region of the store.
Yep eventually in the deGoogle quest you just reach a point where you're like "Well I guess I'm just not using that app anymore. Time to hit up AlternativeTo.net"
Won't whoever shares the files still get a cease and desist?
Do they care?
I just cheked, you can literally search "minecraft free" on play store, and find countless minecraft clones there. Why wouldnt googel and microslopt take down this games?
Probably because none of those "malware in disguise" listings are popular enough to be a threat to their bottom line.
Literally the first two results have over 100 millions of downloads each, compared to minecrafts 50
We need to rid the world of AI
Lisan al-Gaib!! /s
Ugh, feels like the Allumeria situation all over again, Microslop bots were behind that one as well...Only one way to take care of that is to double tap those Slopbots.