[5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV]

Wow, yeah let's build a tool for freeing storage on the device on the web. And even if it was a apk distributed by yourself, good luck doing that successfully.

How about instead we get a system that doesn't just flag livelihoods of other people with ML and if so, at least provides some meaningful way to appeal?

[mvdtnz]

"Stop tending someone else's garden" doesn't mean "build exactly what you were building before, but on the web". It means, stop adding value to Google's platform when they don't care about you, and start building something you control.

We have been hearing this exact story for well over a decade now. I have absolutely no time or sympathy for people who continue to tend Google's (or Apple's or Microsoft's or Slack's or Stripe's etc) garden and get bitten.

[goku12]

The value of the playstore or appstore doesn't come from the apps on it. It comes from the fact that it is bundled with every single device running the corresponding OS. Any app that wants to be successful has to be on them. Even OEM app stores aren't that widely used. And web apps are often not a choice since some functionality are not exposed to them. So the other comment is still valid.

If we want these companies from abusing their dominance, they have to be either penalized heavily and forced to compensate the victims, or it should be mandated that these devices bundle a trustworthy 3rd party store.

[accoil]

I guess PureOS is one way of solving the problem of large log files taking too much space in Android.

[toofy]

> How about instead we get a system that doesn't just flag livelihoods of other people with ML and if so, at least provides some meaningful way to appeal?

I think this is what they were suggesting. It isn’t clear to me how this level of mistakes with basically no recourse to appeal is at all sustainable. The only way out is to literally build the alternative, which means, building outside the current…blob.