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by nuker 6y ago
Consumers and developers have very different interests. Locked down system is good for consumers, not so much for developers. Many comments here commingle the two. I happily pay Apple premium because the app store rules protect my data fro
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by nuker 6y ago
I'll rephrase, "Apple‘s rulings work great for consumers".
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by nuker 6y ago
> This is like in Amazon sold a fridge and said you can only shop at Whole Foods. So why would anyone buy such fridge? And if they do, there clearly are other benefits, which you omitted.
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by nuker 6y ago
> I want to use the app and Apple won’t let me. How is that in my interest? No problems here, I will just pick another app, there are so many to choose from. And the app will be safe to use, Apple‘s rulings work great for me.
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by nuker 6y ago
> If Apple decides to axe it (cough Hey cough) you and the developer are at their mercy. Consumers and developers have very different interests. Locked down system is good for consumers, not so much for developers. I'm a consumer, A
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by nuker 6y ago
This is different thing to one i posted above, just a note.
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by nuker 6y ago
When you install it, it creates like 8-9 extensions in Safari, depending on selected filters, and two special ones, like Safari Icon and another. Click on each and check permissions
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by nuker 6y ago
Im using "AdGuard For Safari". Its open source, in Mac App Store and works well enough to keep using Safari. Trick is to disable two out of 8 extensions that require full page access, leaving on only passive, content blocking ones
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by nuker 6y ago
> .. Apple isn't continuing to make use of their massive personal information collection They don't, they sell expensive devices, successfully because they don't need your data.
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by nuker 6y ago
> .. company's anti-competitive behavior .. I'm an Apple user and I paid premium specifically for this "anti-competitive behavior". I'm totally behind its policies. I feel protected from malware, scams and privac
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by nuker 6y ago
Its in the app code, runs when you launch the app. I'm still not sure how this compromises me, but it does not feel right.
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by nuker 6y ago
This is going to be epic (accidental pun). A vs FANG gang[0]. Follow the money. Apple gets its money from consumers buying devices. Amazon from selling stuff to consumers. FB and Google just feed on people's data. [0] FAANG = Facebook,
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by nuker 6y ago
Im seriously pissed that Garmin Connect iOS app has Facebook SDK in it. I found it googling what apps were crashing because of recent few FB SDK bugs. My Garmin watch has most sensitive data ever, health data like exercise, sleep and heart
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by nuker 6y ago
Cannot wait for iOS 14. Apple is the only big company taking privacy seriously, well done. How is that so many anti-Apple comments in this thread? Are we already in a stage when giant Ad Corps are intentionally distorting public discussions
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by nuker 6y ago
> how can we work against this on a technical level? Always on VPN on all devices? Clear cookies? As a side benefit, people will move away from Google too, Google does not like VPNs.
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by nuker 6y ago
> Most people I know just click "yes" on all popups until the website starts working This. Defaults matter. You cannot introduce a privacy sensitive feature just with a permission dialog box. You must expect that most users jus
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by nuker 6y ago
You think that all baskets are equally bad, hence the approach to separate data. I say follow the money. Apple gets its money from consumers buying devices, Google from businesses buying ads, MS from businesses, buying MS because, well... N
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by nuker 6y ago
Yeah, rename IETF to GETF (Google Engineering Task Force). The only thing that prevents total domination today is iOS with its WebKit only policy.
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by nuker 6y ago
I checked both Mac and iOS, its a fixed list, no option to add SearX for example. Funny enough, Yandex is missing from MacOS list (only options are Google, Yahoo, Bing and DDG), but present in iOS.
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by nuker 6y ago
> Google senior staff software engineer Alex Russell said, "Note that this capability is already available to Chrome Apps and Extensions and in no scenario will we be handing it out like candy to any website that asks nicely" S
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by nuker 6y ago
> has yet to drop in any kind of meaningful way. Minority Report? Just give it some time.
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by nuker 6y ago
> Google is like Gravity. Great comment :) What beats one body gravity is bigger body's gravity. I escaped to Apple few years ago, except search. Safari should have custom search engine setting, though. Is it missing because of the
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by nuker 6y ago
> At the risk of being early, RIP CloudFormation. At the risk of audience running out of pop corn, Cloudformation if the only thing you really need for Infra as a Code in AWS. Nothing else. ECS Cluster, ECS Service, TaskDefinition, ALB -
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by nuker 6y ago
> Glad to see AWS finally embracing Kubernetes too. ... So I guess this solidifies Kubernetes as the defacto standard of Cloud Platforms. I don't think so. We switched most our workloads from k8s to ECS (mix of EC2/Fargate laun
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by nuker 6y ago
> to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios. Well, there is no Mac ransomware, right?
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by nuker 6y ago
> You seem to not be interested in living with your right to install any app you want on your device, which is fine. Yep, i'm very happy that privacy/security audit is done already by the app store. > But do you also believe
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As smoking on Netflix rises, fears of normalization grow(dw.com)
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by nuker 6y ago
> can't rely on increased hardware quality if you can't afford any downtime due to moving (a one-time event) a server. Mainframe is not just a server. You can hot plug RAM on these things.
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by nuker 6y ago
> .. I did to make my life less miserable was to automate a lot of the searching, sifting, and grabbing .. So it is not bots, it is your own customers, that know how to code. You should not fight your own customers, right? Coding skills
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by nuker 6y ago
> I’m a recent windows 10 convert from Mac What happened, if not too sensitive to share, of course.

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