Why willingly leave the market? Why not let them be forcibly removed? Signal is a US company. They’re not doing business in Sweden. It’s not like they’re going to face some kind of legal consequences. Just don’t comply.
What’s likely is they stop offering their app on the Google Play and Apple App stores (if the bill passes into law), and then people will just sideload it, leaving it up to Sweden to geoblock their IPs.
I already do that, but that’s more because I don’t have Google Play Services and the auto-updating “side loaded” app works better than the F-Droid one.
Why willingly leave the market? Why not let them be forcibly removed? Signal is a US company. They’re not doing business in Sweden. It’s not like they’re going to face some kind of legal consequences. Just don’t comply.
What’s likely is they stop offering their app on the Google Play and Apple App stores (if the bill passes into law), and then people will just sideload it, leaving it up to Sweden to geoblock their IPs.
…but y tho
Sorry, I just meant in Sweden only.
That doesn’t answer my question.
Assumption is that they ask apple to remove it for swedish apple accounts. Apple does that for goverments all the time.
So let them ask. Put the onus on Apple.
I already do that, but that’s more because I don’t have Google Play Services and the auto-updating “side loaded” app works better than the F-Droid one.