论文标题
想象，研究和实现一个不太有害的应用程序生态系统
Imagining, Studying and Realising A Less Harmful App Ecosystem
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论文摘要
桌面浏览器扩展名已使用户能够在网上改善自己的体验，并在网站上解决广泛的危害。到目前为止，尽管个人现在在移动设备上花费的时间要比在台式机上花费的时间要多得多，并且可以说面临类似的广泛危害，但还没有对移动应用程序的同等解决方案。 在这项工作中，我们调查了移动应用扩展，这是一个以前未经证实的概念，可以以分散的，社区驱动的方式研究和解决移动应用程序中的数字危害。我们分析了到目前为止采用这种方法的挑战，并由于系统开发的重大和谨慎而提出了Android的现成实施。通过一系列案例研究，我们证明了我们的实施已经可以减少（尽管并非完全消除）广泛的危害 - 就像浏览器扩展在台式机上一样。 我们的方法为移动应用程序中数字危害的一系列后续研究提供了多功能基础，因为浏览器扩展已成为台式机研究研究的富有成果的基础，但以前曾经是可能的数字危害。换句话说，我们的系统试图解决以前研究中关注桌面干预措施的差距。
Desktop browser extensions have long allowed users to improve their experience online and tackle widespread harms on websites. So far, no equivalent solution exists for mobile apps, despite the fact that individuals now spend significantly more time on mobile than on desktop, and arguably face similarly widespread harms. In this work, we investigate mobile app extensions, a previously underexplored concept to study and address digital harms within mobile apps in a decentralised, community-driven way. We analyse challenges to adoption of this approach so far, and present a ready-to-use implementation for Android as a result of significant and careful system development. Through a range of case studies, we demonstrate that our implementation can already reduce (though not completely eliminate) a wide range of harms - similarly as browser extensions do on desktops. Our method provides a versatile foundation for a range of follow-up research into digital harms in mobile apps that has not previously been possible, given that browser extensions have long been a fruitful foundation for research studies on desktops. In other words, our system tries to address the gap of a focus on desktop interventions in previous research.
