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by UncleMeat 1817 days ago
> Sure they can't. Data is lost.

So? Presumably you are going to continue to interact with the app.

> .. in addition to a bunch of security issues.

What security issues?

> Also makes it possible to do forced monetization, like YouTube has done.

Forced monetization is an even stupider conspiracy than NSA spying since it would require wide use rather than targeted changes. This would be plainly obvious since there are loads of people who decompile apps and the signature on the code section would be broken.
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Avamander 1814 days ago
> So? Presumably you are going to continue to interact with the app.

It changes a lot. Apps losing their data is much more disruptive than the silent replacement incorrectly touted earlier.

> Forced monetization is an even stupider conspiracy than NSA spying since it would require wide use rather than targeted changes.

So? YouTube did it on content creators' content. Obvious yes, but directly enabled by the lack of dev-controlled signing keys.

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