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by fullwaza 1700 days ago
Neat, but what stops someone from publishing your PWA under their own dev account? Sure you still control the site and data, but they could publish with inappropriate icons, wording, etc. It seems like maybe there is some potential for abuse.
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This potential for others stealing your content has always been present though I suppose this tool would make that even easier. Android has the Trusted Web Activity which somewhat solves this problem: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/02/introducing-trusted-web-ac...
App Review, the same as any other app really.

(and ofc, the risk of false negatives is present)