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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by cycomanic on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:30AM (#31986911)
The thing I don't get is that people then move from one big player to the next. So the people burnt by MS and Google move to Apple as if they are any better. But I guess "new shiny" always outweighs considerations about security, privacy and freedom.
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by reitanqild on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:50AM (#31987068)
For now my iPhone opens my camera without waiting for an OK from some tech giant. (I don't think that was what my androids actually did but it sure felt that way, they were that slow.)

Also they have reasons ($$$) besides tracking and advertising to keep me in their ecosystem.

It won't surprise me much if they start double dipping though, so I keep an eye on fairphones etc.

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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by ipaddr on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:44AM (#31987533)
Doesn't that same iphone scan your photos and tries to link your photos to illegal pbotos before sending them to icloud or iheaven.
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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by groovybits on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:01AM (#31988285)
Currently, this is false[1].

Additionally, both of the previous two comments are based on false equivalence[2]. The two technologies discussed (online certificate checking, and file hash detection) are not the same, nor do they affect the user's privacy in remotely the same way.

I would argue this thread has devolved into misinformation stemming from uneducated claims.

1. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/15/apple-nixes-csam-refere...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by seanw444 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:55AM (#31988220)
Hey, that's unfair!

Think of the children!™

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Re:Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux by pritambaral on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @05:06AM (#31998491)
It wasn't long ago that macOS started checking every app being opened with HQ first, over HTTP (not HTTPS), before it'd let you open it.
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