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It's likely now your device does the initial processing of your data (store, categorize, and disseminate) and the aggregate is sent through as telemetry. They save on processing costs and users think it's privacy friendly.

But it's Google we're talking about here and smartphones are more than capable these days.

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Those updates are easy when you have to release an system update to update the safari browser. Hell, you could call it a major security fix and fix some security issue on an old phone and every fanboy would be like "OMG iPhone 3s got an update.🤤" whereas Google can just ship browser fixes over the app store.

And version history means jack all when you can just name releases as you please. Google has been doing the same thing last 5-10 years. Emoji mixers, magic cleaner, launcher with google search bar at the bottom, turning a toggle into a big button on nav bar, enabling aren't major updates. Sure there are underlying changes, but they're mostly security patches and bugfixes. Android is still a bloated mess that needs ungodly amount of RAM and processing to keep even few apps running reliably in the background.

And guess where did Google learn this deceptive "long term update support" trend from?

The only thing they'll need is to decouple chrome and require a system update, and they could be providing updates for a decade.

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Developers also need to make money to live and survive. Why do you think you're entitled to all of their work for free? If it's such an inconvenience, you should try your hand at coding an alternative and giving all of it for free. We're waiting.

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It’s either “China is bad” or “Apple is bad

porque no los dos?

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Now it would be bloody awesome if someone would leak how their data collection in Android works and how much of their privacy policy is actually not just for good PR.

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It's all free market until they can no longer compete. Then it's time to get down and play dirty.

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With ICE, you control the population by controlling the oil. Like rest of the world has to eat up price raise without much retaliation, what else you're going to do, you have to work and you depend on oil. But since China is the major producer of batteries and EVs, the nations that dictate the policies are losing that control.

So US does what it does best, propagandize the masses. Mass produced solar panels are bad, EVs are unreliable, e-bikes are a menace.

The world powers will turn the world to ruins if it serves their interests.

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Hackernews, unironically named to appeal tech circles, but run by venture capital fund y-combinator, mainly to promote companies they invest in.

As such it's mostly used by techbros (MBA types) and tech companies to show-off, start drama, push their PR, damage control, and occasionally post news.

It's like linkedin, in reddit format. It's all about your connections.

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lol, you're so free in the freedom land that you taking an un-awful option from the trainwreck gets you hate from the cult on both sides of the mainstream political parties.

Good on you for having a conscience.

Muricah!!!

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Not a problem for everyone else but US. US has been using that same tactic for a lot of other countries. We'd probably consider it karma catching up at this point.

And as always, you can always blame someone else that got you to this point. But we're so used to that now.

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Have you tried an adblock?

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The vast majority of religious workers are akin to workers at a scam call centre. Selling you "thoughts and prayers" and guilt tripping you to give them money. Basically fooling you into something non-existent.

Scammers also give a lot of their time and resource and work full-time. I guess they deserve a living wage too, huh?

The only thing they need is run a pretend-charity, community service and food drives?

You sure seem to like your make-belief system where you think they are net-positive to the community. I'm sure a you would feel the same about scam call centres, if only they could upgrade their PR with some charity. All that without all the violent history.

But oh no, they're brown people in a third-world shithole… so that's a pass. I love my own pretend-charity cult with supreme people.

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They're outsourcing many of their workforce abroad. Like Microsoft, I expect more of these "isolated" accidents to happen.

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I have kids and I don't hate not losing caps.

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okay dude

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This was always the plan of why big tech companies hire Indian CEO. People that didn't see it coming have their head under rocks.

Microsoft having so many security incidents shows what it is going to follow.

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A drop in a bucket for what US has stolen. From the native americans to countless wars abroad.

Karma works in mysterious ways.

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  • US helps create monopolies
  • Buys data off those monopolies for surveillance
  • Pretend-fines pocket change for those monopolies
  • Make it seem like a big deal in media
  • The dumb populace believe the BS and point to it as some sort of win.
  • Rinse and Repeat
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  • US helps create monopolies
  • Buys data off those monopolies for surveillance
  • Pretend-fines pocket change for those monopolies
  • Make it seem like a big deal in media
  • The dumb populace believe the BS and point to it as some sort of win.
  • Rinse and Repeat
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Microsoft and Google have indian CEOs so they can penetrate the billion people market (indians are deeply patriotic, and it plays into overall brand loyalty) and these companies plan lower costs while doing so.

What's a few million dollar paid for a (specifically chosen for the purpose) CEO, when you can make billions by using it to gain grounds in a emerging market.

Win-Win

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That's the thing. You don't know. Nobody knows except the CCP. That's the problem.

But you do about every other social media platform?

Fake news is not exclusive to a single platform. Teach your family about reputable news sources and stop trying to shoehorn US propaganda down everyone's throats like it makes you look smart. Tiktok learned everything it does by the likes of facebook, Google and Twitter.

Why do you think US social media is everywhere all over the world with near instant or sometimes even get higher bandwidth preference in some countries? If you don't think the US government has nothing to do with the level of complexities that entails dealing with local governments/infrastructure and planning, then I guess "ignorance is a bliss", and I hope the US government will bring you peace and much freedumb. Don't complain when they come in blasting tho.

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This reads so much like Apple marketing talk. Just call any criticism bullshit and let the anectodes and fanboys circlejerk. Add "Apple also gives cuddly gifts to kids sometimes", and you're golden.

🤢

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You dare question an Apple product purchase? you've angered the cult.

FYI You should know fanboys and their anecdotes beat studies critical to Apple every time.

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Every buoy wants universal healthcare.

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Free market until someone else begins to dominate the market.

then kids, it's boogeyman story time. 👻

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Ban all social media if you think ownership is the point. Or is it only a problem now because you're not the top dog in internet surveillance? You schum come over like the ownership matters "now" when the pole position is from a different country is hilarious and very telling.

They (Tiktok) has owned the information for about 10th of the time social media companies became a thing. Everyone in the US was fine then while social media companies were sowing discord/violence/hate and genocide abroad, now everyone else is fine most US social media data is owned by someone else. Deal with it.

It's not the author who's out of touch. The same recipe US used to create mega corp monopolies is coming to bite you, it's just controlled by the CCP, LMAO.

Keep telling yourself whatever makes you seem you're on the righteous side. You're fooling no one. you do you tho.

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I'm so glad to read this wasn't some AI. AI filling gaps in history is not something we need.

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mob justice did that before states existed or even humans. Now the state protects one class and loots the other. And guess what? thieves fear a mob more than the state. Things change, bad people find loopholes. How laws work needs to keep changing

Your first argument works in a perfect state, which will never exist. Your second paragraph makes no fucking sense.

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Yeah, they should have just donated to the political campaigns for people in congress like every other lobbying group. Then it would have been fine and dandy. Rookie mistake.

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Who?

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An attempt to generate "being against genocide" rhetoric.

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My guy, that's why there is DRM. Your screen are loading pixels, because they let you. Those third party apps and frontends work because they let the users have a little freedoms.

If you steal something off the mall and bring it to your home, it doesn't make it yours. People thinking all that code, infrastructure and labour to run something on the internet should be free because they have an internet connection are entitled as the sovcit bunch. Just cringe.

Advertisers, Malwares and Ad blockers are all to blame for the current state of the internet. We're heading for paywalled internet and entitled basement dwellers are going to complain you miss the "old internet"

Seriously, I use adblockers but the rationale people make up for this like countless others are just plain stupid.

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"Tech youtuber"? this guy just regurgitates whatever is already trending and then adds in his own right wing idiocracy. He's "tech's" reaction video guy.

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Techcrunch is mostly a PR release website. I wouldn't trust a thing about new companies and products that's featured on there.

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The founding fathers were the rich that wanted all of the riches of the new found land for themselves and their rich friends.

So far, it's going exactly as planned.

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They're a fashion tech brand, They sell fancy stuff with little tech inside.

What sells big to the rich solely based on looks?

They've already got a market in phones but they thought cars would be easy with all the competition around who have decades of experience.

They thought wrong.

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You're accusing Cory Doctorow, the guy who invented the phrase "enshittification"

wow, what a genius. he's going to solve world hunger next. he's totally not "milking" nerds who think that word is the best thing since sliced bread.

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Exactly, We don't know what he does all day and it's creepy you have this weird imagination going through. Like seriously? He probably could be checking the balance that kagi sent him for this post.

Why are people so obsessed with internet personalities just because they say "nice" things you like? This is what every one of them does.

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Writing also need vast amount research, which also involves a search engine, which at some point in time you begin to get fed up with spam, and maybe just may be, if you're actually smart as people think you are, you begin to look for an alternative.

but I also don't know what to tell people who believe everything they read on the internet.

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If Jesus truly paid the price, what else is there to pay?

Sweet little "get the guilt out of any horrible thing you do" card christians made up, huh?

"I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want, Jesus already paid for my sins."

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Yes, this is the "we're the good ones" flex. And anytime they do this, there has to be a big bad boogeyman elsewhere to blame without evidence or consequence.

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Those in power will always try to fuck us over any chance they get, that's why the populace needs to organize to bring them down a notch but there's this blind worship by the masses manipulated by superfluous marketing that is dragging us down.

Apple fanboys are in their league of their own. Their whole schtik is "I'm better than you because I own an expensive product, you poor peasant" and they'll defend Apple with every ounce of their deflection powers. And the worse thing is it is seeping into kids that they bully other kids with a different phone.

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"you mean I should elect my son in law as the finance minister again? 🤔"

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my brother in hell, if I believed in religion, and my religion says giving some amount to it or someone else gets me express pass to heaven, i'd be donating like crazy too. I'd be donating more if I know I've done horrible things and need more "blessing."

The charity doesn't negate the bad things religion has done.

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Donald Trump is Genocide at home and abroad.

That will also probably mean the end of the USA (for good). and may be that'll mean less of "it's fine when we fund or kill people abroad"

And now start your deflection about how you're keeping the peace in the world and savior of the world. Forget everything about afghanistan, iraq, vietnam and countless other regime changes. I hope the bubble bursts and you get to see how people in war zones feel.

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I mean that's the point of self-curated feed. Do you want an algorithm or a team of strangers to find and curate what you should consume?

or maybe facebook, instagram, twitter is more up your ally.

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