karl_chungus
@karl_chungus@lemm.ee
- Comment on Apple blocks Fortnite's return to iPhone in US 2 days ago:
1: Google’s entire business model includes selling your data and activity and advertise to you based on that.
2: Yes, this is directly stated in the setup screen for devices as on be default, which you can opt-out from then or at any time.
3: Let’s get mad at them for doing that when they actually do it.
4: Not sure there are many “rabid” users anymore, or at least here anyway. But there’s a difference between defending a company and flat out calling bs on an bs accusation.
I do not understand why people like making up reasons to hate on a corporation when there are so many other legitimate reasons that could be used instead.
- Comment on Apple blocks Fortnite's return to iPhone in US 2 days ago:
Where is that in their revenue streams?
Nearly all of their profit comes from selling hardware and services.
You could argue they profit off insecure default settings, such as having Google as the default search engine or analyzing Siri recordings, but to date I’m not aware of Apple either profiting directly off data it collects from users, or selling that data to third-parties.
They don’t need to, and the trust they risk losing from doing so is a powerful detractor.
They’re not perfect, but as far as corporations go they could be much, much worse.
- Comment on Apple blocks Fortnite's return to iPhone in US 2 days ago:
They don’t profit off spying on you selling your data to other companies, this makes them the lesser evil but they’re still evil for sure.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 2 weeks ago:
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Where the fuck is Ween tho
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- Comment on Risk of ‘Trumpcession’ rising, economists say, as global markets fall 2 months ago:
“Trumpcession” has a good ring to it
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- Comment on Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition Coming to PS5 for the First Time | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition Coming to PS5 for the First Time | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
AoE3 is best and the most overlooked, and I will die on this hill.
- Comment on Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order. 2 months ago:
Also not realistic. Even if the UK government didn’t perceive that as fraud, Apple accounts (and most other businesses’ accounts) are region-locked and cannot be transferred elsewhere.
This means that every user would also need to make new Apple accounts in their new country of choice and give up any purchases/subscriptions/data in their UK accounts.
- Comment on Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order. 2 months ago:
….or a government demanding a way in.
- Comment on Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order. 2 months ago:
Even your alternative requires someone to give money to a tech conglomerate. There is no perfect alternative. Even if there was, it’s not realistic for millions of Apple devices around the world to suddenly be replaced.
- Comment on Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order. 2 months ago:
Apple’s choices here were:
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Do what they did, and remove the feature for the UK only
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Create a backdoor into their OS that can potentially be used by not just governments, but bad actors too, effectively crippling security for every single device they sell worldwide and bypassing the usefulness of on-device entirely.
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Exit the UK market, which is not realistic and would leave millions of UK customers without any further recourse than to replace their Apple devices, which is incredibly wasteful and expensive (not to mention inconvenient).
Apple chose the lesser evil. What more could you possibly expect in this situation?
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- Comment on CBS Host Says Hitler 'Weaponized Free Speech' To Commit Holocaust, Gets Shut Down By Rubio 2 months ago:
Hahaha OP didn’t even think one step further with their response.
- Comment on DOGE Is Good. It's Not Enough. 2 months ago:
