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JustARaccoon

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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

JustARaccoon ,

They do make it very hard to speak about anything else

JustARaccoon ,

You're being slowly boiled alive, frog friend

Apple’s App Store breaches EU’s Digital Markets Act (techcrunch.com)

A few months after opening a non-compliance case on Apple and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has shared its preliminary findings with Apple. And the bottom line is that the current App Store rules are in breach of the DMA. Confirmed violations of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10% of global annual...

JustARaccoon ,

That's 90% of a year's revenue they could be missing out if they fixed it now, yeah

JustARaccoon ,

I'd argue you can go much cheaper. Also their real competitor in terms of standalone hmds is Meta, not beyond. Beyond is a niche pc only product, not a standalone experience with social potential.

JustARaccoon ,

Don't see why that'd be the case, they might focus on it being a lighter model or something that also happens to have lower specs

JustARaccoon ,

Quest 3 adoption is super high compared to where quest 1 or 2 were at years ago, the apple vision pro wasn't meant to create mass adoption anyway, not at that price point.

Adobe's Employees Are Just As Upset at the Company As Its Users: Report (petapixel.com)

Adobe’s employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the “evil” company customers think...

JustARaccoon ,

Well the good thing about their licensing is that you can buy a version and stick with it in spite of whatever the parent company does, and you're not banned from using older versions like with Adobe's T&Cs

JustARaccoon ,

Also if the ads were actually curated and we didn't have crypto scams running amok

JustARaccoon ,

Read the article

JustARaccoon ,

Idk this kind of feels like victim blaming. Why should you expect your photos to be used in a way that is so devoid of the original purpose you shared them for? It's like telling people to not go out of the house with money on them, you don't expect to be robbed, so why should you have your entire way of living affected by it instead of punishing robbers when that does happen, or in this case companies that abuse good will.

JustARaccoon ,

But I don't think companies are transparent enough with how they use things and usually ask for very broad licensing and usage rights for what you upload. Sure us tech literate people should and usually are scrutinizing that stuff, but what about the family aunt who just wants to share photos of their nephew with their close ones? On Facebook for example it even tells you you are only sharing posts with "Friends" or "Everyone" (or custom I guess) which might make those people think "oh just my friends see this, not the platform that I'm using"

JustARaccoon ,

Any place to sign up for a newsletter to be let known? I'd like to trial moving to jellyfin but I might as well wait since it's not like Plex is that terrible that I have to switch now

JustARaccoon ,

Huh, TIL!

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