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*Restaurants, cafes and bars with forced app download sharing data with health insurance companies, who increase your premium if they see a lifestyle/pattern of ordering unhealthy dishes or overly large portions, or frequenting that bubble tea shop too often.

*Government tax agency charging you "excess carbon footprint" taxes because you often order a lot of clothes beyond the number that the "Average" person of your profile wears, based on what your favorite fast fashion retailer with forced app download is sharing with them.

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=== Discrimination ===

Those who can not or do not have the required technology are further disadvantaged. Not everybody can afford a smart phone. Not everybody can operate one, differences in visual ability, physical ability, mental ability (e.g., dementia) can make smart phones unusable. Visitors, tourists, and those who have had a device lost, stolen or broken lose out. If banking requires an app, and your phone breaks, how do you get the money to buy a replacement?

=== Decreased security ===

If many people are using an app for valuable transactions, the app may become a target for malware. (Create fake versions of the app, exploit weaknesses in the app, etc.)

=== Increased vulnerability in adverse circumstances ===

It may become harder to function in emergency situations. If network connections are unavailable, or power is out for an extended period, how do you get necessities?

When errors are found in the app you may lose access to important services. With a web browser, you have alternatives. There may be no alternative to the app.

Victims of domestic violence often do not have control of their devices. In such a situation, the other party may be able to continue to endanger the victim via manipulation of the device, even when they are not present.[[File:Digital turbine logo .png|alt=digital turbine logo |thumb|digital turbine logo ]]

[[File:No unverified apps.png|thumb|Singapore banks will "restrict access if unverified apps AKA sideloaded apps are found on customers' phones" (News story from Sep 2023)]]

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 *Restaurants, cafes and bars with forced app download sharing data with health insurance companies, who increase your premium if they see a lifestyle/pattern of ordering unhealthy dishes or overly large portions, or frequenting that bubble tea shop too often.
 *Government tax agency charging you "excess carbon footprint" taxes because you often order a lot of clothes beyond the number that the "Average" person of your profile wears, based on what your favorite fast fashion retailer with forced app download is sharing with them.
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+=== Discrimination ===
+Those who can not or do not have the required technology are further disadvantaged.  Not everybody can afford a smart phone.  Not everybody can operate one, differences in visual ability, physical ability, mental ability (e.g., dementia) can make smart phones unusable.  Visitors, tourists, and those who have had a device lost, stolen or broken lose out.  If banking requires an app, and your phone breaks, how do you get the money to buy a replacement?
+=== Decreased security ===
+If many people are using an app for valuable transactions, the app may become a target for malware.  (Create fake versions of the app, exploit weaknesses in the app, etc.)
+=== Increased vulnerability in adverse circumstances ===
+It may become harder to function in emergency situations.  If network connections are unavailable, or power is out for an extended period, how do you get necessities?
+When errors are found in the app you may lose access to important services.  With a web browser, you have alternatives. There may be no alternative to the app.
+Victims of domestic violence often do not have control of their devices.  In such a situation, the other party may be able to continue to endanger the victim via manipulation of the device, even when they are not present.[[File:Digital turbine logo .png|alt=digital turbine logo |thumb|digital turbine logo ]]
 [[File:No unverified apps.png|thumb|Singapore banks will "restrict access if unverified apps AKA sideloaded apps are found on customers' phones" (News story from Sep 2023)]]