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Google Allows Carriers To Ban Tethering Apps

Posted by timothy on from the ultra-customizable dept.

iluvcapra writes "Google, in its continuing struggle to provide phone carriers (if not its end users) with an open platform, is now banning tethering apps from the Android market. These apps haven't disappeared and can still be sideloaded, insofar as your carrier doesn't lock this functionality or snoop on your packets."

2 of 328 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This is good. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    You agreed to let them make changes to the contract when you signed it.

    Either that, or your contract specifies that every time you use your phone you are agreeing to any goddamn agreement they want.

    It's all fun and games until they abduct you and sew your lips to someone's asshole. I seen it on the teevee.

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  2. Re:This is good. by Whalou · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's all fun and games until they abduct you and sew your lips to someone's asshole.

    So that's the origin of that IANAL expression.

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