I’m pretty sure they do it to fly under the radar, since mobile clients are far more dominant than smart TV applications.
And there’s also newpipe as an alternative to Vanced (or rather the other way around, I believe newpipe came earlier), and even a fork with sponsorblock integration. I personally vastly prefer them over vanced/revanced.
I’m using BubbleUPnp for screencasting.
You mean, only on Android TV. They don’t have a phone app, and explicitly stated they are not interested in developing one.
Workplace policy leading to inherent familiarity with the system.
Plus most people aren’t heavy users or particularly tech-savvy. Installing an OS from scratch is already too much to ask for most.
Um, no. It flags it for the user to review and urges a removal, that you can ignore. That’s it.
I live in China and have a Xiaomi phone as a work device, and use all sorts of apps the powers that be don’t like on it.
If we want to start our own traditions, why the hell are we copying reddit yet again?
A simple network sniffer is enough to figure out what sites the app is connecting to, then you can just block them on the router.
If you are using Android, you can do that easily right on your phone with PCAPdroid, it’s on the play store. No root required.