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Kinda new on here but am loving the bare bones feel to the forum. The karma bit in my previous comment was added as a sarcastic aid. I personally don't care much for gaining karma. Thank you for this extra context. Very helpful.

Except I (throwawei) had to login to another account (this one) to reply you as the downvotes triggered some soft ban limit on the account from replying/commenting.

So much for free speech...

I would post photos holding today's newspaper to prove ownership of both accounts. Probably not worth the trouble anyway

HN Commandments: pray you don't offend the rain gods. Your karma will be wiped away in a furiously terrible flood.

> IDFA

The mechanism for tracking users is already present. What more proof do you need?

Even if you manage to toggle 3rd parties out of your phone. You cannot toggle the Apple out of it.

I enjoyed Mad Men. But comparing web advertising today to the 70-80s is disingenuous.

Fact of the matter is, advertising today / web marketing relies on user tracking. I'm yet to see anyone debunk this.

Check their ad business brief - https://searchads.apple.com/

As requested, evidence of tracking in iPhones - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/11/16/appl...

Not true. Facebook doesn't do any of this automatically, manner of speaking, unless the user explicitly informs the addon to do so.

This looks like simply naive thinking. Without evidence to backup your statement about Apple, everything about it breaks the cardinal rule of the ads business.

Not enough. Need to see it go down 20-30% more. The BTC pump craze needs to die down so my diamond hands can buy it from the weak hands.

Ouch. I can relate to a bit of some of your issues. What saved me from all these seemingly mysterious bugs is going with a pure Arch system. I was using Manjaro at the time and it wasn't fun patching it just so that it could break on the next system upgrade.

I digress, in my experience, whole system freezes usually points to system running out of ram and/or swap to fallback on. Might be worth checking out zram. Though this admittedly is a problem the Linux kernel has had for the longest time.

After using a Linux distro as my main desktop OS, there was no way I was ever going back to the monstrosity that is Windows. No matter how bad Linux sucks in some regards, it is the black sheep of the family that will always have that special place in my heart.

Any program that is Windows only, will be run on a VM. I like my systems clean, focused, lightweight & minimal.

Just because you (unique use case) don't see the problem doesn't mean it does not exist (for the common average user). The whole browser "sync" you get with Chrome is much more than keeping your bookmarks. It is a feature that now includes Google's ecosystem and for its users, the majority of people, it allows them to pick up where they left from. A major advantage in user experience.

Firefox has a long way to catch up to the polish & convenience of Chromium-based browsers. This is just a sad fact.

As for Brave, I won't give divulge too much to the recent tor dns leak news. Anyone knowledgeable enough to be using Tor knows the dangers of using a different browser from Tor and it's consequences.

Happy user as well. I use it as a hackish solution for ssh-ing to my closed-down homelab. I love how well their authentication & security is modelled.

This is great news for them.

Accurate. Gotta keep the engines of crypto trading churning.

Not in defence of big tech but Australia is doing this whole news business laws wrong and for the wrong reasons. [0]

Only good is that this serves as a nice reminder that big tech & co. that they are not independent of government legislation.

[0] Read into Murdoch's deep hands in state affairs https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/19/kevin...

True. But that was not my argument.

A customer won't order through 3rd party app if the restaurant doesn't partner to sell through them. Same case for internet marketing.

What you should feel bad about are the excessive commission fees charged by those delivery apps.

Ah yes. Thanks for the memory. So they effectively cut their ad spend on Facebook by 2/3rds (an experiment) and saw virtually no difference between the two budgets. An obvious indication of reporting fraud.

I remember not too long ago Uber cancelling previous arrangements with Facebook advertising over a similar fraud.

Direction regarding this help info would be appreciated

Epic's move (if it succeeds) would have a direct positive effect on the consumer. Across the board. It's not a gamer issue anymore. It is now bigger than them.

How you don't see Epic's move as a win for Apple users is ironic given how pro-consumer you seem to perceive Apple to be.

> First, manual APK install has to be enabled in obscure settings that come with a "scary" warning.

Don't see how this is necessarily a bad thing. It's a general security notification.

> Then they can't provide auto-updates but require a manual confirmation for each version update.

Again, how is this a deterrent? How many times a day do you have to accept the new changes?

We've already established that the official store will always be designed to provide the best experience ootb compared to the 'installed' one.

This is true for all the other platforms where you need manual intervention to install/maintain apps "unofficially".

> Epic gave up on running their own store on Android due to the difficulties.

This is a hard stretch

> I do think that regulators need to force Apples hand - not being in control of your own device is not acceptable.

?? You'd be a fool to think Apple would give an equal footing to other competing stores in their own garden

> But even then most business would remain on the official stores.

Simple. Open it up and let the market decide this one out.

> We also need legislation to curb the excessive fees charged by both Google and Apple.

On this one I agree. Though it's a different for Apple which does not allow any other payment solutions other than themselves, unlike Google's store. This is not an apples to apples comparison.

The Apple store monopoly should be broken up. It's time.