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scbzzzzz

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    Comment #48034430

    looks nice, but i am using firefox and website is broken, lost of text overlap. horizontal scroll not working etc

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    Comment #47153550

    It is like blaming government for policy to make cigarette packaging unappealling. Every company wants to spy on you using cookies and sell you data or target ads. cookies banners …

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    Comment #46758537

    Make perfect sense, Thanks kind stranger. Hope it is the reason and not some corporate greed. It on me, lately my thoughts are defaulted towards corporates sabotaging consumers. I …

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    Comment #46758335

    What do OnePlus gain from this? Can someone explain me what are the advantages of OnePlus doing all this? A failed update resulting in motherboard replacement? More money, more sha…

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    Comment #46194414

    I respectfully disagree my friend. When Investors , board, wall street is chasing second order and third order delta increase in a stock enshitification is bound to happen. If ther…

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    Comment #46067157

    yes I agree, but we need to change with the age. in early 2000's it is hard to distribute apps/software, and 30% commission made sense. now it is not, there are several people/comp…

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    Comment #46066857

    Apple cerifies/recieves licensencing fee for every thunderbolt cable. Apple only did move to usb-c when backlash is so high and eu law will certainly pass. It is good for their pr …

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    Comment #46066759

    Wow , you need lot of homework to do. You missed the whole timeline of events, backlash with apple and usbc and just looking at headlines. Or either misrepresenting the facts becau…

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    Comment #46066727

    >> Apple is so successful is because they know how to create a great phone experience. I disagree, may be they were at some time. Now they are successful because the walls of the w…

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    Comment #45593196

    True. I would like to hijack this thread and wante d to discuss what we want for software that is not present. For me. All i can think of is ondevice , al/ml ( photo editing, video…

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    Comment #45579292

    It is not just that. In my case , everyone around me are using iphone . I made the sacrifice to not easily connect with them and use android so that i have freedom ( to install, cu…

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    Comment #45579199

    With all the things google is doing for custom os last few years ( play protect, no major updates to asop and bundling updates to closed source google libraries etc). It is not spe…

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    Comment #45369621

    You need to look at history. In early 90s why did Microsoft invest in apple when it is its competitors. Investment doesn't mean they are medling into mozilla business. For companie…

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    Comment #45271855

    Early pixel models comes with unlimited google photos feature etc. I think maintaining is more of a lost revenue to google than patching cost. If customos devs can do it on donatio…

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    Comment #45179582

    The problem is not with the ads but all the bad things that come along with it. Collecting unnecessary personal data, targetting, disregard for others privacy and list goes on. The…

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    Comment #44344814

    My major problem with ads is the disrespect of my privacy. People deserve to get paid for the hard work they put. I have immense respect for creators . But at the same time, these …

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    Comment #43914448

    My two cents, tipping should be optional and only reserved for exceptional service. It is problem with business taking advantage of low income groups and business should be guilt i…

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    Comment #43521996

    The commenter says about most apps. The use case you mentioned requires computing resources. You can do the whole thing on browser too but it is not efficient way . But in the case…

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    Comment #37902835

    Thanks for Pythagorean cup analogy, interesting read. I didn't know such thing exists.

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    Comment #37902052

    oftopic but. yes, I agree. Software development costs a lot. but I think you missed something important. The thing is, we are collectively paying for internet-infra through broadba…

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    Comment #37900504

    Yes ad-revenue offsets , I want to point out, premise it self is wrong. their business model itself is not sustainable (as per my understanding)with present free +ads/paid model. y…

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    Comment #37900340

    true, but they bundle with youtube music and other services that i don't use. I don't see value paying for everything. there is no option to buy just youtube - ads(atleast where I …

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    Comment #37900119

    True (i am not ok with those ads(I am taking about youtube ads above), I forgot about the irritating ads/pop-ups/redirects . I have firefox+ublock on all my devices/even on incogni…

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    Comment #37899846

    true I agress, I hate facebook/google a lot for developing tools to track users and target ads based on their personal data. yes, it optimized advertisers money but at the cost of …

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    Comment #37899256

    2 instances I would like to share from my personal experience. when I am in freshman year, I wanted to host a website and started looking online for best service, I was bombarded w…