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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:24:07 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union: 3rd party App Store and web engine for iOS will be available in EU. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:30:55 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     Personally, if I were in the EU region, I would not use the 3rd App Store or payments. My experience shows 3rd party payment makes it really hard to cancel subscriptions, and you need to call them. They do shady things. Apple made it easy to hide my actual email from apps and cancel my subscription. YMMV.

   • Harris-Walz 2024 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (jdrch@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:35:28 JST Harris-Walz 2024 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

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     @nixCraft is there an equivalent of F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid for iOS?

   • schrotthaufen (schrotthaufen@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:43:47 JST schrotthaufen

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     @nixCraft Frankly, the only things like about this is that 1) maybe there will be a real Firefox with the option to install extensions (ubo) so I can ditch brave, and 2) writing apps without having to pay $99/year.

   • Rthaar (rthaar@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 07:52:07 JST Rthaar

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     @nixCraft In the EU things are very well regulated with respect to these aspects. Canceling subscriptions is very easy.
     Personally i think it is great that monopolists as Apple are forced to allow third party stuff.