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by p49k 5y ago
Audacity was purchased by a company which makes money from online advertising. My guess is that they need to use Google/Yandex because they are going to track users across all of their websites/apps so that their targeting is bett
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by p49k 5y ago
It’s not that much of a difference. Apple bundles app purchases over days/weeks into a single charge to save fees.
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by p49k 5y ago
You are Gish-galloping at this point. Yes, Anglo-Americans making fun of Anglo American names is not racist, nor is a group of people exclusively joking about names from their own culture. But that’s not the situation here. Jokes that begin
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by p49k 5y ago
The best outcome is just to change the name right now and be careful not to violate trademarks and avoid any chance of conflict. They won’t be sued if they hurry to rename it to something generic, change the domain name, change the wording
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by p49k 5y ago
The articles about the issue clearly state that the list in question contained examples that mocked Asian and African names, so your comment is moot in this context.
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by p49k 5y ago
This argument reminds me of a similar one: students, who when caught plagiarizing, defend themselves by saying "well, there were no other combination of words that could express the idea in question." However, in analyzing the sit
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by p49k 5y ago
As a user of both, my general advice is that working in the Apple ecosystem is an absolute joy if you learn to do everything Apple's way instead of trying to customize things to work your way. The more you stray from defaults, the more
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by p49k 5y ago
A big argument/selling point of the FOSS model has always been that it's compatible with capitalism. You are allowed to sell your software and build it as part of a commercial entity; the only difference is that you have to share
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by p49k 5y ago
Parent comment was also referring to YouTube's AI marking a benign video as 18+. Google is willing to wrongly punish people via excessive/unfair false positives in the interest of trying to be more advertiser friendly. It's j
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by p49k 5y ago
There can definitely be a racist undertone to jokes about "this name means something funny in English" - it is often rooted in the idea that "this person doesn't belong", "these people aren't like us"
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by p49k 5y ago
In Google’s case, this is not enough. They exert too much control over the online advertising industry that it’s simply unfair to ban anyone with no explanation and recourse. It should be illegal. It’s almost impossible to effectively monet
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by p49k 5y ago
> Are there not at least 4 or 5 different competing companies in this space? No, there are a combined 4 or 5 apps that cover almost 100% of the attention in this space, and all but one are owned by the same company.
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by p49k 5y ago
No it isn’t. If you have Google maps open and suddenly decide you want to go to McDonald’s, then sure, that voice command should go to Google Maps. But if you make a voice command to send an email to someone, it shouldn’t open Gmail instead
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by p49k 5y ago
Sure, but that’s not what Google is asking of Roku.
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by p49k 5y ago
> That's not to say there aren't weaknesses to the password manager model, but you're overestimating them Doesn’t this very article show otherwise?
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by p49k 5y ago
He’s not necessarily conflating them. There’s a case to be made that profits from Bitcoin and other crypto are used to manipulate the system to boost it further (look at all the shadiness around Tether, for example).
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by p49k 5y ago
That sounds like a direct, honest and correct explanation of the result of agreeing to the prompt. I see no reason why they should include propaganda from Facebook along with it.
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by p49k 5y ago
Your comment implies that Apple somehow stopped Facebook from allowing network-wide ads on the Facebook app with the privacy changes, which is not true.
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by p49k 5y ago
Giving privacy to users is the ethically correct decision. It doesn’t even conflict with the act of ramping up their own ad business (which ostensibly respects the same rules they are applying for Facebook). The antitrust issue would be rel
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by p49k 5y ago
The privacy changes Apple made were the right thing to do regardless; it’s a question of users having control over what apps are doing with their data. The two things should be treated as separate issues (the latter perhaps should be a topi
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by p49k 5y ago
They aren't lying, but their methods are still dangerous despite their implying the contrary. Their approach requires perfection on both the submitter and reviewer. The submitter has to remember to send the "warning, don't ap
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by p49k 5y ago
That's not the issue. If you buy a Tile with a non-replaceable battery, the actual battery life will vary greatly depending on various factors: how long it was sitting on the shelf before you bought it, the temperature of the environme
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by p49k 5y ago
At any given time, there are hundreds of stories in the Tribune network that have gone viral on Reddit/Facebook and are generating millions of EU page views. They don’t just operate one local newspaper in Florida, and many local storie
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by p49k 5y ago
To be accurate: 30% for the first year, 15% after that.
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by p49k 5y ago
At the very least, they could license and proxy content to a European third party who is willing to take responsibility for GDPR compliance; they could easily find takers.
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by p49k 5y ago
I assume “over time” means for a long enough period to eliminate the possibility that you’re on a train with other people.
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by p49k 5y ago
No they won’t - read the article. Numerous protections against it being used as a “secret tracer”
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by p49k 5y ago
Apple covered the “person being tracked doesn’t use iOS case” - read the article.
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by p49k 5y ago
I am so happy to finally rid myself of all Tile devices after this announcement. Tile has been one of the worst companies I’ve ever dealt with when it comes to dark patterns. Their app is one of the few I’d describe as having UI that’s acti
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by p49k 5y ago
If you don’t have an iPhone, the tag will just start beeping by itself whenever it’s moved. This is covered in the article.

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