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Do you know about what Victoria Nuland (leaked intercepted tapes), Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsay Graham, Hunter Biden, CIA John Brennan, etc. did in Ukraine? Do you know tha…

Wireguard is the only service that I bother to expose. It's stealth and has mitigations for DOS attacks.

I love this hyperbole. Please continue. I have never once seen an ad on my phone or on my desktop -- all thanks to ad blockers. They don't use photos for ad-targeting. Your message…

The only thing worse than being wrong is being wrong and not knowing that you're wrong. We really deserve an answer sheet here. Number 7 is boys+1 right?

Well, where are the answers?

Anti-trust regulators should pounce on Facebook if they try to merge WhatsApp and Facebook in a serious way.

> Apple themselves are not a vector in my privacy threat model Mostly the same here. But, when their ad-targeting goes fully online? When they hand over your data due to a lawsuit …

I'm 44. My parents are 64 and 62. They are, I guess you could call them "tech-illiterate". My simple rules for them: You don't install anything on your devices without checking wit…

I concur. And, people never bring up why iOS users eyeballs are worthier. It's first-world currency spending and the fact that a ton of the revenue generated via iOS comes from spe…

Apple sells you privacy from everyone but Apple. When are they going to allow us to opt out of the baseline telemetry that we cannot opt out of as per their EULAs? When are they go…

> their habit of obsoleting certain things fast Lately, Google and Microsoft have been beating them at that ugly game.

I just always used VLC. iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, or Linux -- VLC, VLC, VLC!

This is getting out of hand.

About that Signal thing: Did that other person actually get a conversation starter message of some sort?

Right-to-Repair should be a national law in all possibble hardware arenas. Apple doesn't get a special pass on this either.

What a dumb thing to be disturbed about. Incognito/private mode doesn't stop a website from trying to track you. It will help you refresh your cookies and start fresh.

That is the point I was making. Bundling by a platform seller/maker should be regulated.

> (customer pays Apple money, Apple delivers hardware/software). Pretty soon, this'll turn into: customer has to keep paying Apple because of vendor lock-in.

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I am an Apple hater who owns a MacBook and an iPad. I am extremely happy with their USB-C decision. I want USB-C everywhere. Just buy one of the all-encompassing USB-C hubs or just…

How about the Apple Music store being embedded into the default Music App? Blatantly anti-competitive against Spotify.

How about the Apple Music store being embedded into the default Music App? Blatantly anti-competitive against Spotify.

Sure. But, let's also stop feeding the Apple App Store beast. 15-30% cut for little-to-no value added. Complete monopolization. Can't side-load apps without paying an yearly-fee.

Bundling of iMessage and SMS = reduction in competition by integration.

> "behave anticompetitively" What is Apple doing when it bundles iMessage and SMS together? Deception and anti-competitive behavior, that's what!