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Re: iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe

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Why so shallow? Don’t care for this particular feature, maybe but the broader fight is about ownership and control of the things you paid for. Sideloading is going to be nice for programmers as it will have to allow for more flexibility in what apps are allowed to execute

With automatic updates and SaaS business models, we have fully lost control of our devices. There is no way for me to disable marketing push notifications on any device. I can’t tell Facebook to remove Reels because it’s too addicting. Firefox is my primary brower, but 5x per week I have to switch to Chrome because a website won’t let me login or is acting funky. We have lost control of our devices

>Firefox is my primary brower, but 5x per week I have to switch to Chrome because a website won’t let me login or is acting funky.

I have used firefox and adblock/ublock since literally 2007, and have NEVER experienced this. What websites have given you trouble? What functionality doesn't work in firefox? What functionality is even different in firefox? Is it just servers reading your user-agent and saying no?

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