Ad companies are getting butt-hurt because the pages you are referencing are being seen even less, due to AI scraping by search engines. So now they are going after:
If you don’t own the storage, you don’t own the content. You’re just renting it.
Any level of UI element transparency is hard nope from me. Based on your screenshot, it looks like Apple was listening, on that front.
They’ll criminalize personal VPN users for non-work purposes, next.
Challenge to Google Chrome
Uses Chromium as the base
So basically they are doing exactly what Google is, and what Microsoft is with Edge.
Elon pushes directly to main
Samsung’s board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.
Don’t worry, that’s all written by defense contractors anyways, so they’ll sell it to the US, and to others the US allows, all closed source. The source won’t even be open to the US government, either, as that’d harm the bottom line of the contractor (support & maintenance contracts for that closed-source software).
I’d still want the browser to at least be able to do it as a default, not at the whim of specific sites.
I build call centers.
When we design the call flows, those are the first tings we disable. You can tell a company at least slightly cares about their customer base if they actually do allow you to escalate to a human without a ton of effort. Most don’t, and want to shove “AI” in front of everything, so they can hire even less people in low-cost markets. Offshoring wasn’t cheap enough for these leeches companies, now they want AI to replace those folks making starvation wages to get yelled at all day.
And sometimes, these solutions work well. Most of the time, they work just well enough to not have people quitting their service in frustration.
They can, but this wouldn’t be a website thing, it’d be the whole browser. Not a bad thin, IMO, Recall is cancer that no one but Microsoft board members & investors are asking for.
I predict privacy-preserving browsers like Librewolf, Waterfox, etc. potentially deploying the same “DRM for a good cause” approach Signal is using.
I read that it’s “opt out” not “opt in”.
Nice, wholesale illegal wire tapping. It’s OK, it’s legal because it’s AI and Google is totally not storing any recordings. They say this is all on-device, but that’s an “oops” or equivalent from them hoovering up recordings of every phone call you use one of their surveillance endpoints phones on.
heavy /s
There are open source alternatives? Do they handle Plex/Infuse integration? Trakt’s obsessive march toward enshitification has been pretty predictable, but maybe this price hike will be the last straw.
Yeah, Proton is bucking the obvious trend, with this one. Most companies will totally take the profits rather than lowering prices.
If you are a developer, writing code, the taller screen helps.
NYT should just abandon it like NPR did when they were labeled as “state media”. NPR recently said it had near zero impact on their site traffic.
That’s slightly different. You aren’t paying them to store that specific content, you are paying to rent space in their service. They guarantee that space to be available for whatever SLA they have and for as long as the service exists. If they shut down the service, you are still SOL on that content if you don’t have it backed up locally.
Contrast that to “buying a digital movie”. You are paying to access that content, at that time, and as long as it’s made available on whatever service you paid for it. The latter part is the kicker. My argument is that if I can’t download it in a usable format independent of the platform “selling” it, I didn’t buy it. I rented it. Buying digital movies is just renting them for a longer time frame, unless they let you download it.
I always argue with the less tech savvy people in my life that it’s like buying a car vs. leasing a car. If you buy it, it’s yours, period. If you lease it, it’s not truly yours. You have to give it back when the lease is up, or buy out the lease. You don’t truly own it until after that. The media companies just don’t offer the “buy out the ease, later”, part. While Microsoft retired the whole service, these companies also have this issue when they let media agreements expire with content producers. You buy a movie, but then they decide not to renew their agreement with Paramount? You just lost access to that movie.