How did they crush f-droid? What did they do to set alternative app stores on Android back? We aren’t talking about YouTube here, your entire comment is just making shit up about Android stores because you are bad about other parts of Google.

Unlike on iOS, nobody forces them to use Google Play to distribute their app. Just don’t use it. On iOS that’s not an option, but here what’s the problem?

It’s not about percentages or watching everything. It’s about I want to watch what I want to watch, and usually that’s the opposite of the popular stuff.

Also let’s be real if we have to resort to going out physically to buy plastic disks that I’ll just immediately throw away after ripping, something is still drastically wrong.

I mean yeah it’s selfish, but it is definitely righting a huge injustice:

There is literally no customer centric way to watch these shows, or most modern media at all. Where can I literally buy shows that I can then resell. Where can I get a subscription service that’s focused on giving me the best content possible and not trying to squeeze value out of me by influencing what I watch or selling my metrics or up selling me to a bigger plan after killing the previous plan or any number of other dark practices. Where can I buy DRM free offline files of these shows so I can watch them on an airplane on my own hardware without Internet?

It’s fucked up that there is literally no way for people to buy their entertainment and not be fucked over more for trying to do it the legal way and spending money. And piracy needs to exist as a breaking point to stop these companies from getting even worse.

Didn’t the mods say they were going to do something about musk/Twitter spam?

This isn’t even about something Twitter did

This isn’t even about something Twitter might do

This is just a dude talking about what everybody knows about Twitter. And musk fans upvote anything Twitter, and musk haters upvote this out of a sense of validation that is shit.

Voting is not good for this, please ban the musk spam

Agreed about them doing nothing against the law in the past.

But against your last anecdote: 150k now is worth more than having to maybe pay 150k later

But when one businesses whims can harm the right of millions, it’s time to regulate them so the CEOs feelings don’t fuck users over.

Your printshop isn’t a de-facto public town square. Apple, Google, Twitter, and other large companies have inserted themselves into that position.

People like you that just go “government vs private business” miss the entire context, history, and nuance because why that distinction even ever mattered in the past and how it came to be.

In the past, almost every business was closer in practice to being an individual. Your local print shop. Your local hardware store, etc. And for businesses like that, I agree with you 100% , they should get the right to do what they want.

However, private mega-corporations nowadays have more power than most governments at the time the Constitution was signed. When a company has the power to decide what more than half the country can put on their own phone, that’s national level power, companies can seriously oppreess people, discriminate, etc, at this scale. Sure, this is a case of stopping a bad person, but there have also been cases of apple censoring apps critical of apple or other awful governmental atrocities in other countries. I’d rather apple not be able to censor anything, than be able to censor things like that.

And your last paragraph is flat out wrong. Freedom of Speech is a concept, that means you are free to say what you want. You might be thinking of the first amendment to the United States Constitution, which is just one thing the US government promises to do.

As for Google, I agree.

As for apple, how is anybody supposed to install the app if apple refuses to publish it? Unlike Google, they made their app store the gatekeeper as the only way to install apps for end users.

It is arbitrary. There is no court. There is no jury. There is no impartial third party to appeal to. Their terms of service are so vague that they could give any bs reason to take down anything they want. And they have done this to take down perfectly reasonable apps that are just critical of apple in the past.

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

While I truly believe the dude and his app are bad, Apple shouldn’t be able to both arbitrarily remove whatever apps they want from the store, but disallow loading apps from places other than the store.

But people keep talking about it and upvoting it. Please just downvote the musk spam. This isn’t even about Twitter/x, it’s just musk rambling.

He’s right though. We can’t go a day without some inane bullshit about musk getting posted. This event happened 8 years ago, it’s not even news. It should have “2015” in the title. This is a bad post, and I’m disappointed we always have to have these kinds of posts around.

Uhh, yeah the lawmakers kind of did. Laws affect everybody, so it makes sense for everybody to react and chime in with their opinion. Even if they are awful and almost nobody agrees.

Disgusting, everybody has a right to privacy, privacy settings shouldn’t be behind a paywall.

Because in all practical senses, windows is a virus.

Viruses at their core are programs which do things against your will on your own machine. Which is bad.

However, that is exactly what windows does. But like the boiling frog, people for some reason are okay with more bullshit from Microsoft and less control of their own devices with every passing update and year.

Complaining on reddit social media does nothing. Switching to Linux gives you back control and will be better for everyone in the long run.

This is like saying teachers are banned from using trojan brand condoms at work.

1. This is just one of many apps that could be a problem, banning one solves nothing
2. The entire category of social media apps has no place on a work device (except if you are in marketing)
3. If it’s not a work related app, it shouldn’t be on the work device full stop. Idgaf if it’s fucking Google sheets, if you’re not using it for work purposes it doesn’t belong there

This new law is like 3 levels of abstraction away from actually addressing any problem, and likely wasn’t a problem in the first place for any competent organization.

What do you mean “except those targeted predictive execution”? This does as well.

Did you not read the article?

I don’t understand your post.

It was on my front page. But it’s meaningless bullshit. I’m disappointed at the community for upvoting it this much.

Everybody is (rightly) saying this is a bullshit PR move and that he’ll never pay.

Then why are you up voting this?

If we all know it’s meaningless bs and non-news, downvote it. Stop giving it attention. Stop giving it the eyeballs and newscycles that he wants.

Any content aggregator would be better if people actually voted down meaningless drivel thats clearly PR internet bait

This is literally exactly what people are complaining about. Myself included.

Using an advertised feature is “privileged and entitled”???

They literally charged extra for more simultaneous streams, and let you set up multiple profiles. Password sharing was an intended, advertised feature that people paid for.

Wanting what you were sold is not entitled or privileged. That’s a baseline of transactions.

This is not true: QR codes have built in error correction, they are designed specifically for the purpose of working when many pixels are distorted

They flat out lied and said the ad tiers wouldn’t make ad-free tiers more expensive. This is just the obvious plan continuing.

This shouldn’t be legal.

Why is this in the technology community? This is mostly about medical malpractice, the fact that she streamed a video of what why was doing isn’t very technologically interesting or relevant to the tech field as a whole.