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My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet

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Re: My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet

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His first gripe is the prompt for USB HID devices, where he even has been told the correct answer but attempts to pretend it away. Unfortunately, Apple is right whether or not he appreciates how many people have tried clever attacks – see https://github.com/topics/hid-attacks – but my favorite write up is this one:

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/plasma_globe/

Re: My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet

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Since when does medium require an account to read blog articles? Don't think that used to be the case, or are my memories gaslighting me? I'm interested in this article, but don't wanna create an account for medium.

load it up in a private tab my dude and thank me later!

Re: My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet

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Since when does medium require an account to read blog articles? Don't think that used to be the case, or are my memories gaslighting me? I'm interested in this article, but don't wanna create an account for medium.

load it up in a private tab my dude and thank me later!

It's weird that this works. What are they using to prompt you to sign up?

Edit: OK, I just answered my own question. At the top it says:

"You have 2 free member-only stories left this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one"

You only get ONE more story to read after signing up? That's very misleading.

Re: My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

load it up in a private tab my dude and thank me later!

It's weird that this works. What are they using to prompt you to sign up? Edit: OK, I just answered my own question. At the top it says: "You have 2 free member-only stories left this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one" You only get ONE more story to read after signing up? That's very misleading.

Probably cookies and javascript.

Lots of sites would like to make the paywalls immediate, but they won't get ranked highly on search engines if they don't show the article's content to a web crawler.

So the usual approach is to load the content, then hide it as quickly as possible if an unauthorized human is viewing the page.

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