danShumway

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by danShumway 2y ago
I think you may have accidentally misread my post, or maybe I didn't word it carefully enough (in which case I apologize for the confusion). I don't prefer Steam. As a consumer, on principle in most cases I refuse to buy from it.
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by danShumway 2y ago
I'm already using Manifest V3 in Firefox for a few personal private addons that I develop, and I can confirm that blocking network requests already work perfectly fine in it. The only issues I have with Manifest V3 in Firefox are techn
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by danShumway 2y ago
> Ideally someone could create their own spec to replace or supplement declarativeNetRequest in mv3. And ideally write specifications to support that. Or include it in MV3. Firefox's implementation for MV3 avoids this problem almost
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by danShumway 2y ago
Fair point. I do think Steam is engaged in anti-competitive behavior, but that doesn't mean they're the full equivalent of the app store. And we can see on the PC market the large number of indie games that very literally would no
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by danShumway 2y ago
> by your argument Apple should get 99.9% of the fees No, by my argument, even if someone believes that Apple is somehow morally entitled to a specific level of compensation for running the app store, it is absurd to argue that the amo
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by danShumway 2y ago
"Apple isn't being doing anything bad, they're just like the music industry" is a heck of an argument to make. Do you think the average person would argue that the music industry isn't exploitative?
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by danShumway 2y ago
If you're suggesting that Steam doesn't have an effective monopoly on the PC market, I have bad news for you. One of the biggest differences between Steam and Apple is that Steam does a better job of hiding the effects from users
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by danShumway 2y ago
"a cut of that" is doing a heck of a lot of work here to handwave the amount they're asking for. A "cut" in this case means such a high percentage of the transaction that if Patreon didn't pass the extra cost o
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by danShumway 2y ago
:shrug: It would be nice to have alternatives, like you say, it's not like Patreon is particularly good at this. I understand that payment processing is kind of hellish to deal with, but that wouldn't be a barrier to a company the
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by danShumway 2y ago
Admittedly, I also wondered about this. I'm taking Patreon at their word (for now), but I would welcome Apple making some kind of statement indicating that Patreon is allowed to disable payments in the app. And if it is true that they&
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by danShumway 2y ago
This gets brought up a lot in conversations about Apple. In one sense, I agree with it. Patreon is a rent-seeking middleman who abuses network effects. 100%. But the creators on Patreon who's income are going to be most affected by thi
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by danShumway 2y ago
> If most apple users refuse to go outside the app store for their content, Than clearly they care more about the ease of access than the content itself. Does Apple's refusal to allow apps to tell users about lower prices elsewhere
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by danShumway 2y ago
This is extremely well phrased. I will say, I do have opinions about what to do ;) But parent comment is right that I'm not trying to advocate for those opinions above, someone might completely disagree with me about how to respond to
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by danShumway 2y ago
> The problem with "fairness" is that there is no objective measure of it. Everybody evaluates fairness according to how it aligns with their own personal interests. With respect, this sounds a little bit like you're agree
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by danShumway 2y ago
Only on HN would I see someone argue that depreciating or stagnant assets are the same thing as a 30% transaction fee. This community is smart enough to be able to tell the difference between a tax on revenue and a tax on profit. Apple
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by danShumway 2y ago
Or, I would argue, like if a realtor made more money off of the sale than the person selling the house made.
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by danShumway 2y ago
Another point that Patreon isn't really emphasizing here that seems relevant to any conversations about "fairness" is that Apple's fees on Patreon subscriptions in-app are now higher than Patreon's fees. It's
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by danShumway 2y ago
> those services are typically not the same as what you can get at Walmart. Several things: A) Apple doesn't sell a creator subscription service that's the same as what you can get from Patreon. B) You can advertise inside of a
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by danShumway 2y ago
> Apple has also made clear that if creators on Patreon continue to use unsupported billing models or disable transactions in the iOS app, we will be at risk of having the entire app removed from their App Store.
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by danShumway 2y ago
Do we know whether or not iOS's subscription model supports pausing? I guess I assume Patreon would mention if it didn't.
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by danShumway 2y ago
When was the last time you bought any large item from a physical store that didn't come with advertisements in the packaging for direct services? If you buy a Disney DVD from Walmart, there will be advertisements inside the DVD case fo
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by danShumway 2y ago
> Find me a list of cases https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/03/UNITE... Emphasis mine: On whether platform APIs (like those in a web-browser) can be anti-competitive: >
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by danShumway 2y ago
Case in point of what I was talking about above, femoid's comment is what you're going to run into if you interact with terf spaces, and it regularly spills out to attacks on cisgender people as well. It's not uncommon for te
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by danShumway 2y ago
Google is literally being sued right now for, in part, using browsers (both its own and others through browser deals) to privilege it's own services. No, the FTC was not created for the purpose of the Internet, but that is not a thing
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by danShumway 2y ago
> How can you consolidate the facts that "man" and "woman" mean absolutely nothing, they don't describe how you act, express or present, but at the same time you can feel like a "man" We could have a lo
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by danShumway 2y ago
> There is no contract, except in your head. I... what? Today I learned that the Federal Trade Commission is a figment of my imagination. I'm sorry, your argument has devolved to the point where you're now saying that Chrome pr
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by danShumway 2y ago
> All you've done is swap "men must be masculine" for "anyone masculine is a man". No, very literally the opposite of that. I'm saying if someone calls themselves a man , I believe them. I don't care i
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by danShumway 2y ago
"Google should not use a near-monopoly position in the browser to privilege it's own sites and services" is a very simple standard, and this really is not a complex case. It only becomes complicated if you start trying to rep
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by danShumway 2y ago
These men's internal gender identity is masculine. That's why they are calling themselves men. This comment is actually kind of a really good example of what I was explaining up above. It's a very terf kind of thing to look a
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by danShumway 2y ago
> as this implies that men need to behave in a certain way, present in a certain way, think in a certain way to be considered men. This gets brought up sometimes in terf talking points, but as a practical reality, it's nonsense. Eve

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