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What the actual fuck?! (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 1 point 2 years 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?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That is how Java names work. The whole domain-like appearance is meant to avoid name collisions between packages made by different companies.

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