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by dessant 5y ago
Some apps are sold for a different price on the App Store and the Mac App Store, than if you'd buy it directly from the developer or a store on a different platform. On iOS you can obviously only buy an app on the App Store, with some
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by dessant 5y ago
Products on the App Store can be sold at a different price, companies often do this to recoup some of that 30% App Store commission. Edit: this is a fact, though feel free to downvote. Apple tries to hide this from the user by not letting p
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by dessant 5y ago
A store cannot dictate how much you charge for a product at a different retailer, and they have no right to interfere with your business activity, and the agreements you have with a different distributor.
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by dessant 5y ago
I think your comments in this thread are made in bad faith.
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by dessant 5y ago
This is how search results for "car rentals new york" look like on my display, there are no organic results above the fold. https://i.imgur.com/CFeWDY1.png As for your question, there is no point in trying to repl
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by dessant 5y ago
It's fascinating to see Google and Facebook employees defending the undefensible here almost daily, using all the upbeat expressions they can muster out to obfuscate the fact that they are not accepting no from people when it comes to
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by dessant 5y ago
Of course, though giving yourself an advantage over competitors in a market you control is also illegal, so they should at least try to keep up the appearances.
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by dessant 5y ago
Information about nearby devices is not essential for navigation, otherwise the permission wouldn't have been optional until now. It can improve the service in some situations, so the right way would be to explain the tradeoff and let
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by dessant 5y ago
Refusing service when the user does not consent to non-essential data sharing is illegal in the EU, and it also breaches Google Play's developer agreement. WiFi scanning is not essential to navigate with an app, and the least they coul
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by dessant 5y ago
It ok to be ignorant, but you should think twice about that smugness. You are wrong, and you have very little excuse for being this wrong after two years of living in a pandemic.
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Probably because it was the language they enjoyed the most to use in their free time.
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by dessant 5y ago
Their religious freedom can take a hike when they use their power to advocate for taking away human rights.
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No, they don't use common accounts or devices, and they don't connect from the same network.
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by dessant 5y ago
Targeted ads that follow you around on the web need to be banned entirely. My aunt can predict what health issues or products my mom searches for on Google, because Facebook almost immediately serves her ads related to my mom's searche
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by dessant 5y ago
They do the same in WhatsApp, the app collects your personal data through your aquintances, and they hold your social graph even if you're not a WhatsApp user.
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by dessant 5y ago
Facebook has been known to break the law and stall the release of all data they hold about your person. People often get an incomplete set of documents, and are ghosted when they insist on receiving the missing data categories.
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by dessant 5y ago
> I am unaware of a single family, anywhere on the planet, that was "decimated" by Covid. Then perhaps this is a good time to start paying attention to your surroundings.
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by dessant 5y ago
Yes, times are tough for everyone, including children. I find it even more abhorrent to single out masks because "you can't see people's faces", while ignoring what their purpose is and what can they prevent. We've
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by dessant 5y ago
They will manage just fine, because they are exposed to enough maskless people at home and in other social settings. And even in schools, kids often don't follow mask mandates, especially when the teacher steps out, or sets an example
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by dessant 5y ago
Facebook isn't just about old high school friends, to some it can mean finding a free stroller and clothes for their baby, finding a buyer for their produce, or getting support in times of need.
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by dessant 5y ago
Services such as Facebook Groups, Facebook Marketplace and WhatsApp have become essential in some places. Employers can use WhatsApp groups to coordinate with employees, this is widespread even among government agencies. Facebook Marketplac
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by dessant 5y ago
My Facebook account has disappeared without a trace, after having been disabled and publicly reinstated by Facebook months before [1]. I don't understand how is this level of incompetence tolerated at a company that wants to mediate
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by dessant 5y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, the events are already evidence that the facility was not shut down during a tornado that was known to hit the area. Workers were changing shifts when the tornadoes hit.
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by dessant 5y ago
The main issue is that both conditions and actions are limited. At the very least they would need to allow registering self-contained functions as conditions and actions, nothing less will allow extensions to have proper control over reques
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by dessant 5y ago
Dynamic session-scoped rules are also available, but the whole declarativeNetRequest API is way too primitive to efficiently defend against advanced techniques the advertising and marketing industry currently implements. The allowed length
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by dessant 5y ago
Ad blockers will no longer be able to have granular and complete control over requests. Extensions will still be able to observe requests, but not edit them on the fly based on advanced and dynamic criteria. Extensions will no longer be a
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by dessant 5y ago
An extension can steal personal data and manipulate pages with Manifest V3 APIs just like before, it does not become any harder for extensions to compromise browsers. There may be an argument that it becomes a bit less performant to execute
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by dessant 5y ago
Granular control over requests is completely lost in Manifest V3. For example, with Manifest V2 we can initiate a request from a content script after we begin listening for it from the background script, pass a single-use token in the Accep
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They've asked to name one law that I think Google has broken, which is already part of the public record. If you're asking what illegal business practice Google will be engaging in when the Manifest V3 limitations will begin to
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by dessant 5y ago
This is just an attempt to rehash the same old arguments provided by Google that have been repeatedly debunked by developers and security researchers. > I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself I'm doubtful about a person&

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