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by shuckles 3y ago
>> In the game of tracking, minor hurdles are great at stymying many actors. > > That's questionable. It's basically indisputable. Ask any online advertising buyer about the effectiveness of audience targeting for Safa
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by shuckles 3y ago
Your logic is that any flaw in an implementation renders it useless. In the case of VPNs, operators can and do share information about clients to destination servers, law enforcement, and more out of band. Just because it involves a spreads
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by shuckles 3y ago
This is obviously untrue. People accuse Apple of marketing differences where none exist all the time. Thus the trope "X did it first" or "Y on Z is basically the same."
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by shuckles 3y ago
No I understood exactly what you meant. The number of reports is not helpful data without a lot of other context, but you offered it as if it would be convincing or definitive. How many CVEs and 0-days have you filed against Audacity? Is it
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by shuckles 3y ago
Unfortunately in this case, the website does content marketing with known, easy to fix vulnerabilities presumably to put competition out of business while keeping unknown, harder to fix vulnerabilities as part of their "pro" produ
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by shuckles 3y ago
“Apple’s quantity and resolution rate of security bugs undermine its privacy marketing” and “Apple’s privacy marketing is a lie” are two very different claims, and it seems like you meant to make the first. Even that claim though is unsuppo
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by shuckles 3y ago
Bad engineering yet state of the art. What are Chromium’s protections against web audio fingerprinting? In the game of tracking, minor hurdles are great at stymying many actors. And finally, your citation in response to someone saying they
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by shuckles 3y ago
Built in tracker blocking and the various ways Safari makes it hard to share user sessions with 3rd parties absolutely has real effect. It also has real costs: part of Safari’s poor compatibility reputation comes from websites that are brok
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by shuckles 3y ago
And a VPN leaks a lot of information about your network activity to the operator, so by your standard it is privacy theater. Do you see why you’re coming across as having inconsistent standards and thereby perhaps an axe to grind? iCloud Pr
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by shuckles 3y ago
Is iCloud Private Relay theatre? 3rd party cookie blocking? What specific features do you allege exist just to mislead the general public?
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by shuckles 3y ago
Permissions dialogs solve for a problem product creators have and create more problems for users.
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by shuckles 3y ago
50% of the workforce could be involved in construction, but if the product being built is slowly-approved with intensive white collar labor permitting single family spec development, not many new units will come out at the other end. A meas
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by shuckles 3y ago
The locational value of most property far outweighs the value of improvements on it. This is not a particularly controversial statement among economists. A 1000 ft. high rise in Antarctica is not very valuable. A lord who extracts taxes fro
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by shuckles 3y ago
It’s not a strawman. It’s an application of your claim that up front payment gives rights to perpetual and arbitrary use of a product. Content DRM is as arbitrary and artificial as any iOS limitation.
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by shuckles 3y ago
This isn’t a lawsuit and it’s not being brought on by competition so I’m not sure why any of that is useful to say. I did not say it’s impossible to be anti-competitive without being effective. I just said it’s a factor when judging whether
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by shuckles 3y ago
It’s possible to run Spotify on Android but that has nothing to do with running it on iPhone.
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by shuckles 3y ago
If you believe this, then clearly you should believe that Spotify should be free after initial payment. After all, the recording artist was already paid, the mp3 exists, and the incremental cost to stream a song approaches $0.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Yeah the quote says Americans freak out because they interpret the law as written. Implicitly, the Europeans defer interpretation to various bureaucrats leading to absurd situations where, eg, member states are retroactively punished for fa
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by shuckles 3y ago
Comparing a legal monopoly (utilities) to a privately developed computing product is a bit absurd. What easement rights and wireless spectrum did the EU grant iPhone?
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by shuckles 3y ago
This is a weird argument. Apple released a functionally comparable product to Spotify with about $2b of investment in Beats. Only one company on the planet has been able to create a functionally comparable product to iPhone, and that’s stre
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by shuckles 3y ago
Landlording is rent seeking because the landlord did not create the primary value of a property: place. This is not the same at all.
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by shuckles 3y ago
So Americans freak out because they believe in rule of law?
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by shuckles 3y ago
It is not possible to run software on iOS, an Apple software product, without running Apple’s developer tools. Are you thinking Spotify wants to opt out and build its own software stack for iPhone from kernel and baseband up?
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by shuckles 3y ago
So you’re of the position that when two companies are in a dispute, one should primarily favor the one with smaller market capitalization? Are you familiar with patent trolls?
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by shuckles 3y ago
Right: complainants can argue they should have access to all of Apple’s hardware devices for free while they themselves are an Apple-level monopoly in their market. I wonder how many billions of dollars in exclusive podcast deals for former
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by shuckles 3y ago
Surely effectiveness is a meaningful indicator when you are in a dispute over whether something is anti-competitive.
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by shuckles 3y ago
The DMA was passed many years ago (January 2022), before the cited investments in PWAs. So if Apple was acting to proactively stave off regulation, you have a big hole in your theory of causality. The web is more than a Chromium app runtime
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by shuckles 3y ago
No, enshittification as proposed as a term for marketplace operators or platform providers who slowly degrade the experience for dependent users in order to capture more of the value created. Mistral is not a platform; it's a technolog
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by shuckles 3y ago
If "enshittification" includes "companies improving products but not making improvements available for free use by others", then it's a meaningless term.
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by shuckles 3y ago
Actually recruiting criminals is not that easy. Most people aren’t looking to be criminals, especially when crime doesn’t pay.

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