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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What the actual fuck?! (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some random website knows which school i go to, this is the second time i have received this message

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Their website is slickapp.co (without the m at the end), but their Android package name is com.slickapp.

Isn't that a bit of an issue?
For example, when handling URLs?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Don't most Android packages begin with com. ?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

@biscat @tanja yea

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not really.

Android apps can declare which urls they accept as deep links. Once that is registered with the system (ie after install) then links of that type can be opened by the app. It doesn't have to match the package name.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The package name should, however, match a domain owned by the publisher of the package.