Apple and Google use their app stores to shape what apps you can and cannot have on devices, but now more governments—including the U.S. government—are using legal and extralegal tools to lean on these gatekeepers in order to assert that same control. Google’s central registration system will be devastating for the Android developer community. EFF has signed on to F-Droid’s open letter. If you care about taking back control of tech, you should too.
Add MS to the list with many open source programs showing a Smartscreen warning during install, unless the dev pays up (and probably gets vetted somehow).
I bet the average user will not install after the Smartdcreen block notification.
I’ve never seen a Smartscreen warning.
Then again, I don’t use Edge and I disable Smartscreen.
This is a very different thing than what Google does, though it’s in the same direction.