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I concede. Personally, most of the PCs I see are custom desktop computers, hence my comment.

Pirating Windows is not realistic for most people? From my experience, paying for Windows is what is not realistic for most people.

I also made quality changes: I switched to LTSC.

The current approach will end the native population.

>kicking the user out to Safari would significantly reduce the usability of the app

Am I the only one who HATES when apps open links inside a webview and you have to tap yet another button to open the link in Safari? Most apps do that and they annoy the hell out of me.

There probably wouldn't. What perturbs people here about this approach is that it works despite going against the principles of liberal democracy; it's the first time an oppressive regime is not led by dunces, and it's working fine. That, + the fact that most nationals don't really care much about surveillance as long as it helps maintain civility and cohesion.

That's apples to oranges. A laptop includes many pieces of hardware you probably don't understand as part of your desktop PC (think keyboard, screen, loudspeakers, ...), is carried around all day, and sometimes suffers some abuse :)

He shouldn't have blurred the text in [0], as blurred text could be read using techniques I admit knowing nothing about. It's better to just use a black block or something like that. Pixelating is bad too.

[0] https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*h8cIVhi7n9-vuNJ-1...

Edit: I just noticed parts of the concealed text have been "smudged" before blurred. So no risk here. Still valid as a PSA :)

Video hosting sites lose money, so it's not like a contender will ever appear, unless the EU pours a ton of money into it, and not even then (just imagine how many EU funds Dailymotion has probably taken)