[dylan604]

from a non-app developer, that's something I'd never even contemplated. I've only ever released websites, and I don't give a damn about compliance anything. I've spent time making something on my own, and now making it available for anyone else that comes across it to view. If the viewer lives in a country that has rules I'm never going to read, that's the viewer's problem. Luckily for the viewer, anything I make does not include any of the shit that has been attempted to be regulated. But if I did something offends those regulations, don't care.

These related documents you speak really makes me not want to app. I'm glad there are braver people than me. The only thing I can offer is "fly low and avoid the radar"

[dcrazy]

You might have missed the hubbub about websites shutting down or banning UK visitors due to concerns about complying with the Online Safety Act.

[dylan604]

If the UK wants to force nationwide firewall rules to block my little ol' website, then bob's their uncle. I don't care if some Limey bastard can or cannot view my website. I mean censorship sucks and all, but I'm not going out of my way to ensure that I learn every single country's specific rules and find a way to ensure I comply with all of them. I am not doing business by accepting money in exchange for something. If my website states something that offends someone else because I said that chips is a dumb name for a fry when a chip is clearly a different thing entirely, then they need to get over themselves. Also, you put stuff in the trunk of the car, and you wear a boot on your foot. <insert_thumbs_in_ears_and_give_sloppy_raspberry> If someone feels unsafe about that, then good luck doing anything to me in another country about it.

Again, the main point is that I don't do shady shit that needs regulating. I don't use 3rd party libraries that hoover up data to be resold to anyone offering to buy. I roll my own JS to make something function. I write my own CSS to make it look "pretty". I know that nothing nefarious is happening because I didn't code anything nefarious to happen. My sites are about as lame as the people that think that regulations are going to solve anything

[frizlab]

Whatever you do you need to comply with local regulations. Apple asking the documents straight up is actually _helpful_ because it’s stuff one HAVE TO DO anyways.

[dylan604]

exactly. that doesn't "have to do" doesn't have to be done with a website. that's my point. reading about all of those forms that apple makes you fill out is just one more reason i don't app.

[frizlab]

Just because you don’t do it doesn’t mean you don’t have to!

[dylan604]

That's similar to what I say about doing shady stuff that regulations are trying to protect against. I don't do them, so I'm not violating anything.

It's a pretty simple philosophy. Don't do shady shit.