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So if your kid downloaded a shady app, and it turned out that app had some residential VPN SDK, are you on the hook too? Does it stop at DDoS attacks? If it turned out they were scraping linkedin, can they sue you for a thousands of dollars of "harm" that you enabled?

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Seems petty clear the intent of the post you are replying to isn't to hold random parents accountable for thousands and instead to hold app developers (add maybe too open app marketplaces) accountable for malicious app behavior

This road seems to lead to the exclusion of third party app stores and/or the ability to load apps that aren't signed by Google/Apple.

That’s what they want, it’s why you often see people popping up in discussions on HN supporting licensing for software developers.

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