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by dmitriid 4y ago
Again Jeff pretends that there are no ads but personalized ads that require you to collect any and all user data without consent. Again Jeff pretends that data you need to collect to combat ad fraud can be freely used for any other purpose.
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> Tweets alone generate petabytes of data a year Nope. It's not Tweets that generate that data. It's the insane amount of (mostly unnecessary) noise that gets thrown into the mix: analytics, logs, metrics, you name it. Every ti
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> `npm audit fix`? There's nothing even like this on Android or iOS. Because you don't need anything remotely like this for any proper app platform. I know of a complex web app that has more than half a million entries in its y
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Google also has another strategy: push and promote non-standards as if they were standards by publishing their specs in the form of a non-binding document on w3c. Example: - Already shipped in Chrome and advertised https://web.d
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> Well, start by having WebGL and WASM catching up with modern hardware, instead of lagging behind native tech for a decade Exactly the reason why the web sucks: chasing the wrong targets and ignoring what is actually needed for develo
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> I thought that a number of first party Google "native" apps is just a packaged PWA, isn't it? I wonder what those are. Because the apps where they want actual fast responsive apps with smooth animations etc. (and trackin
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> It's an implicit appeal to their authority, and I personally have no idea who they are. Alex Russel, a developer, team lead and developer advocate for Google for 13 years from 2008 to 2021. He's one of the primary people res
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All I can say is: even though you say you agree with me, you keep deliberately saying the same falsehoods, deliberately clumping disparate and non-related things together, and deliberately misrepresenting and misinterpreting everything rela
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People working on gov.uk design system are absolutely amazing.
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> was mostly generated by devs not users or manufacturers, and set mobile web back a decade. This simple fact was true in 2007 and it still is true in 2022: you can't even animate a list item on the web without incurring significant
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People keep bringing up Twitter as an example of a good PWA... But it is objectively horrendously bad. If that's the best example of a PWA, give me a badly implemented native app any day of the week and five times on Sundays.
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> many of the native API integrations missing Those "native API integrations" are Chrome-only non-standards that neither Safari nor Firefox are ever going to implement.
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Telegram really is an outlier among messengers. Each version is developed by like one person, and they are all feature-rich, feature-complete, fast and smooth.
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It's being enforced. The problem is that the "free market that knows better" has collectively decided that they will go against it. And the enforcers are expected to work with the companies before fining everyone. However, it
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It was still less effective globally because you couldn't reach a few billion people 24/7 at the click of a button. And it was more effective locally because a limited selection if newspapers and TV channels was all you had access
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> Then it should be opt-in. GDPR
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> and there's no way to keep my data private anyway This is learned helplessness. Instead of giving up we should mete multi(m|b)illion fines to corporations who think that your data is theirs https://noyb.eu/en/
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Teenage Engineering comes to mind: https://teenage.engineering/ They are not a startup, but they are rather small.
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> I agree with your #1, #2, or #3 > I do have a coherent view, though It's strange that you agree... and yet your coherent view keeps on repeating the same lies, falsehoods, and keeps conflating things. > My main view is that
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TTS tools are required for accessibility etc. However, "convert your ebook into audiobook with this amazing voice over" will run into issues. Amazon tried it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123419309890963869
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This is a lie, of course. The US spends about 170-180 billion U.S. dollars on medical R&D, the EU spends about 100-110 billion dollars on medical R&D. While not equally, but Europe is definitely not "freeloading". The cost
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> There are many ways to target cookies without saying 'cookies' directly. Because cookies are just one piece of data, and GDPR is, suprise, General Data Protection Regulation > This is also quite the oversimplification, b
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That... that is literally what GDPR is about: default is no tracking, no extra data collection. Users can opt in to data collection if they so wish.
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> It is the lack of a predictable regulatory landscape in Europe What are on about? Europe's regulatory landscape is very predictable. GDPR was in the works for several years, and then had a two year grace period after going into ef
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> I left Google six months ago, and don't work in ads anymore. But you did work there, and you keep saying the same things over and over again. > and (my interpretation is) the GDPR requires consent (including the ability to say
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jeff. We've been through this multiple times already. You working for the ad portion of Google has made you madly in love with ads to the point that you pretend that not letting you siphon and sell my personal data wholesale means you
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Those banners are illegal according to GDPR. Once there's a threat of a fine on the horizon all those "insipid banners" quickly change to show you a reject button https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-b
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> On the other hand, this seems like an easy way to avoid addressing Europe's lack of it's own tech industry. The only reason the US has its tech industry is: - lax laws for everything: from data protection to labor laws - unli
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> I don't think that Apple providing a high quality narration tool with their phone which can be used on any ebook would infringe licensing terms. Oh, it definitely would. This produces a derivative work besides anything else. >
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> Failure to consider the second-order effects of regulation causes the greatest harm to society. Ah yes. "Companies are willingly flaunting the law, so the law is bad" > Because of GDPR, consent to cookies must be freely gi

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