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You very clearly explained exactly whats wrong with that site’s (and other sites) behavior, but pivoted to that somehow excusing what they did.

For a third time

I dunno why you keep posting that, it clearly doesn’t mean much to me beyond, uncharitably, showing that you’re still holding a grudge? But I like to think I’m not so petty as to hang on to that.

it’s certainly not any different than US websites

But you… then explicitly go on to explain how it’s different from US websites. Like you understand this, so I’m not sure why we’re disagreeing here. It’s fundamentally different, you even explain how it’s different, we’re not… disagreeing here.

I kind of figured you wouldn’t, based on prior interchanges, but tried anyway. No worries, enjoy your day/night.

It’s disappointing you seem to only remember the time you were abusive and proved wrong in your accusations, but not the multiple extremely civil/pleasant interactions we’ve had since then.

/Disengage

This isn’t a DB0 community - and even if it was, this wouldn’t be a valid use of the disengage rule. see: “For a disengage call to be valid, it must not be accompanied by other arguments on the existing topic. A disengage is not meant to be a trump card to have the last word.”

Don’t regress these interactions and start being a dick for no reason. Seriously, this has been plenty civil until you started to get defensive about your unfamiliarity with the topic.

No, it’s that nobody was talking about the google play store, and while I’m certain you’re trying to disagree with me you’re making very salient points in my favor about the dangers of unverified closed-source apps.

You seem to understand exactly that what that site is doing is dangerous and broad strokes on why, but you’re using that to… excuse their behavior.

I’m sorry, I don’t think I understand what you mean here.

Oh, very different thing. When that happens it’s just asking permission for an applink query - which is just a flag that tells the user’s OS to check and see if any currently installed apps are associated with a given URL and then passes it to that app if there is one.

It’s very different from trying to get the user to sideload an entire app. “Open in app” is not really a threat vector, but installing random unverified .apk is the threat itself.

Ah, yeah DDG uses the google Being browser engines.

I think there’s confusion about what we’re talking about:

• DDG the web page search engine uses the bing crawler.
• DDG the web browser, which is contemporary to firefox uses webkit and blink

Yeah, but that it’s a rejectable download isn’t really the issue here. That it’s, unprompted, trying to get me to sideload a random .apk at all and hijacking my clipboard is the problem.

I’m curious what western social media apps have attempted to directly download the .apk onto your device - I’ve had plenty that throw up splash pages that redirect me to google play store, but no legitimate site has ever unprompted served me a raw .apk before. That’s behavior you find on the AI slop sites that are just long strings of search terms to try and get you to click on them.

If there’s genuinely interest I can look at cleaning it up so other people can use it - but it’s really nothing fancy, and some of the time (due to how modlogs are structured in lemmy) it just doesn’t work.

Ah, yeah DDG uses the google browser engines. That could easily explain the different behavior.

It appears to be trying to force the download of the tiktok .apk directly - I haven’t compared the hashes but at least that’s what the names indicate. But the download, and the inserting random strings into my clipboard, happens without interaction a few seconds after the page loads. It’s very odd behavior to see from a legit site.

edit: no, I’m sorry, I know I should be good, this one is just sending me.

All war is stupid but what the fuck even is this shit anymore?

Um… this isn’t misinformation. Heres one of the .apks it tries to download, the others are apparently all variations on that name - if this is just tiktok, then it’s still a pretty huge problem that it’s attempting to force-download itself onto my phone and is copying random stuff (the string “677e2163cbeed74442e2247e575770983c98bc9a30c649a397010bd06f476ef8” from that screenshot, there’s others I’ll spare you) onto my clipboard.

That might explain the difference, what browser are you using?

No idea what the difference is, I’m using firefox mobile with all the usual extensions fwiw.

If db0 is curious I’ll happily share it with them!

Err… Okay? I wrote a tampermonkey script that populates removed comments from the modlog using comment IDs. Not exactly reinventing the wheel I confess, but it was a fun little afternoon project.

IDK man, I’m no fan of the culture surrounding Islam (fuck theocracies, lets be clear), but that doesn’t really justify taking it to an incredibly racist place.

[long string of random characters].apk

Removed by mod

“If the blockade continues, the Strait of Hormuz will not remain open,” Ghalibaf wrote in a post on X.

A: … But isn’t that the goal of the blockade?
B: Can we take a moment to wallow in depression over yet more major diplomatic statements being posted on fucking Twitter? Fucking hell, stop giving that shithole US platform legitimacy.

God everything about this is so damn infuriating and tragic and fuck this.

Iran believes there is a significant chance that President Donald Trump—urged on by Israel—will resume military attacks if a deal is not reached soon

Well… yeah, that’s kind of the point. It would be less depressing if any side were taking this seriously, but holy fuck at this point there’s more oil-soaked posturing than the Mr Universe finals and basically no attempt to actually agree to stop killing people. Fuck I hate this.