Just calling them out. A lot of the things they’ve said are either incorrect or contradicts other parts they’ve said. I called out the easier parts but then there are the more subtle parts that I didn’t bother with yet.

They are following the usual “Oh, I’m huge into A and an expert, but B really is better and we all have to agree. Trust me bro”.

I’ll just back up what I said with real links and not “trust me bro”.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertising/ Apple collects in real time info about you like “Your name, address, age, gender… your approximate location (when turned on, kinda needed for many functions so pretty much everyone does)” I could go on.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754 Apple explaining that yeah, they give the Chinese government full access to Chinese iCloud users. You know who actually cared about their users privacy and didn’t do that, preventing them from selling in China? Google.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo.mobile.android&pli=1 Book ad tracking on Android from all apps. Notice that it’s on the Play Store? Where is the equal to it on Apple’s App Store?

https://support.google.com/a/answer/14328489?hl=en Gooe built in CSE.

Just because I was able to call you out and prove you wrong, doesn’t mean I’m a shill. The fact you just doubled down on your mis-information does out you as the shill though.

You do know that Apple privately scrapes every piece of data you put on their phones right? Go read the privacy and ad policies. Apple also gives access to a lot of their users private information (China has full access to its users iCloud), will remove apps like this (while Google still allows apps that block ad trackers like DuckDuckGo that block Google own trackers). And Google supports CSE.

We get it from your post, your a huge and blind Apple fan that wants to do anything you can to confuse others into believing falsely like you that Apple is somehow a great company and product. But the truth is, Apple doesn’t care about your privacy, lies to your face about it, and makes you less secure and your information less private as these situations show. And if you were in cybersecurity, you’d know this.

Because Samsung did it.

https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-s25-edge/

I think this comment highlights just why people still think iPhones are a status symbol. They don’t know any better or even anything of the market but they are sure confident about it.

IPhone will get 5-6 years of updates, but Android phones from Google, Samsung, and some others will get 7 6 years. Somehow that means the iPhone is better?

What next, they will claim that iPhone is private and Apple doesn’t spy on everything they do to sell them ads? Something that if they read Apple’s privacy policy quickly would find out is also wrong. Or then claim it is somehow more private that Android which can actually block most of the adware spying with apps like DuckDuckGo which are officially on the Play Store?

Then why aren’t they already doing that by blocking DuckDuckGo?

The DuckDuckGo app blocks all apps from sending to Google (and other advertisers) tracking/ad data on a system level. And it’s freely available on the Play Store (has been for years.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo.mobile.android

If they wanted to prevent apps from blocking their ad abilities, this app would never have been allowed on the Play Store.

How do I turn that feature on?

I keep turning off captions off, and every few days they are automatically turned back on.

DMA is only partly for choice. Sorry, different act, but same group (EU). But the rest pretty much stands the same, the EU won’t see it as malicious compliance, but as a great design choice.

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-services-act_en

This is also huge part of it about being able to “prevent illegal” content.

“easier reporting of illegal content” “less exposure to illegal content” “level-playing field against providers of illegal content”

This will help give paper trails for everything, and that allows for easy reporting which is the bigger part of the DMA.

Never read Apple’s privacy policy, huh?

From what I’ve read about this lawsuit is that the UK isn’t blocking the site, they are sending them daily fines for not IDing every user. The 2 sites are arguing back that they aren’t UK companies and don’t even have any business/physical presence in the UK, so as they have nothing to do with anything of the UK then UK laws and legal threats have no meaning to them. Which I agree with here.

I think they are seeking legal lawsuits like this to help prevent any future issues (like having arrest warrants issued for them in the UK, preventing them from ever being there, or the risk of other countries arresting them and shipping them to the UK to face the fines/charges).

Where does it say that Google is blocking all side loading?

It says they are blocking the installing of unsigned apps. This is the macOS Gatekeeper being the only option on Android. You can still download and install apps that aren’t in the Play Store. So the EU will still love this as 3rd party apps can still exist, but at the same time anything “illegal” can be reported to them immediately.

EU: Thank you Google for complying with the DSA.

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-services-act_en

This is a a huge part of it, the whole “prevent illegal” parts.

• “easier reporting of illegal content”
• “less exposure to illegal content”
• “level-playing field against providers of illegal content”

The EU isn’t going to punish them for this, they will hold this up as the golden standard.

No, it’s nothing like what Apple’s been doing.

Apple has been losing in court about everyone needs to give them money anytime anything makes any money on iOS, or even thinking absolutely allowing others to install anything beyond their App Store.

This is Google demanding every app that can be installed on Android must be signed by them, and the only cost is registering with them your name and address, possibly verified by government ID. (And quite possible doxxing you at the same time as they already do on the Play Store…)

These are very different, and unlike Apple, will more likely be applauded by numerous world governments in the current “anything a child can even remotely even know about” must have its users be checked to make sure they are “allowed to”.

He didn’t cut the White House / Presidential medical insurance though.

https://www.healthinsuranceproviders.com/what-health-insurance-does-the-president-have/

How many basic users do you think build their own desktops and not just buy a pre built?

This was about how many normal people buy Windows, not how many of a very small percentage/niche buy Windows. Please don’t move the goal post mid-game.

By this logic then Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas should also be a Disney princess since Touchstone Pictures was wholly owned by Disney.

All hail Disney Princess Sally!

Your link doesn’t mention anything about mail in voting. But I did look further into it, and it seems that they don’t allow mail in ballots. My mistake.

What if we could give each citizen a crypto-signed coin at citizenship registry through citizenship tests or birth, it was required to be destroyed at death, and kept in line with an accurate population census?

Let me see if I understand this, it sounds like you want to make the crypto version of a Social Security number, but also in physical form (a coin).

The issues here is what happens when it’s lost? They would have to invalid the lost one (or be stuck with the Social Security angle that can’t be changed, but with a “trusted token” in the wild as well), but that means changing numbers and that would go against the whole crypto angle. And then it would be used as a form of ID (Social Security wasn’t ever meant to be used as ID, but like your suggestion, it is “unique” and issued at birth/citizenship). We already have enough problems with Social Security numbers being used for fraud, this would only make the matter worse I feel. (Again, as a “more trustworthy item due to crypto” public belief.)

As for population census, this wouldn’t help much because if people leave the country, then they aren’t part of the census count. But people don’t revoke their citizenship when they leave or even make a form letter to their government that they are going to be living more than 6 months out of the year in another country (the usual standard to be considered if you live in the country or not).

You know where mail in voting is allowed? Russia.

And you’re lucky there is this entire Lemmy.World instance running on Linux for you to get this worked up over them about.