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Every youtube reviewer's goal is to be popular enough to be a paid shill. It's money they're after, not your praises.

And Apple marketing invests a lot in their image in internet discussions. There are lot of shills and a lot of sock-puppets that prop them up. Every marketing company does but go to any popular Apple posts on reddit, hackernews, or Twitter, they just have same pattern.

Why this isn't obvious is just idk.

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By comparison Meta and Google merely take advantage of user ignorance and apathy by making opting out frustrating - but still technically doable.

This is simply just not true. Meta used an adversary-in-the-middle attack to decrypt Snapchat and other competitors traffic. Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Google have been intercepting traffic since before https/sandbox/anti-virus were the norm. Do you think they didn't do anything malicious?

Install any Google app on Windows and it will install a task schedule and a always online background service to "check for updates" and downloads and runs their executable without any user consent. I wonder why no body had a problem with that. hmm…

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/03/facebook-spied-on-snapchat-users-to-get-analytics-about-the-competition

Google runs it own operating system so they could technically do anything they so fucking please. You think Chinese Android variants are using exploits or just scooping data wholesale, because it can. But you think Google and Apple aren't?

It's showing your prejudice, bias and concern trolling more than anything.

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There wouldn't be so much anti-china propaganda, if the popular companies didn't do so much shit behind people's back to drown out the good things coming out of China.

I mean China is becoming a economic powerhouse, just make your companies not be backdoors until your influence and trust increase without competition. But nooooo, they have to do every worse thing other big tech companies do, but at a script-kiddie level.

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Me: Terminator Skin v0.0001

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No need to ever get out of your house. Enjoy dating, skating, camping or even skipping stones on the lake with your family and friends right from your living room.

We are a environment friendly company with social initiatives, so 1% of your purchase goes towards heatburn victims who get a coupon for our AC products in a lucky draw.

Game on!

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Regurtitating the same talking points your government uses for people that reveal its atrocities are "bots" no matter how you spin it. There are tankie bots and you are a wankie bot.

Tell us more about how revealing war crimes and global surveillance are traitors, bot.

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Then prosecute him for that. But the US doesn't care about activists, does it? Why do you think US is after him specifically?

What about, what about, what about?

Post the actual proof rather than a link to a wikipedia article.

You do BETTER.

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Social media monitoring and marketing is a big business. There are tools that alert agencies to any critical posts for their brand/celebrity/product/keyword so they can defend or at the very least deflect any criticism with sock-puppet accounts. These accounts seem like normal individuals with lots of history but are either accounts sold to these agencies or home-grown to seem "organic".

Looking from outside people think karma and posts/comments count mean nothing but accounts with good standing, posts, comments has a big market in black hat marketing sites.

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I'm just glad there are companies that are trying to optimize current tech rather than just piling over new hardware every damn year with forced planned obsolescence.

Though the claim is absurd, I think double the performance is NEAT.

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Why the change of heart at tha last sentence?

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Plus they steal technology and ideas from every company manufacturing there.

Stealing is the norm for every developed nation. They didn't just spin out of nowhere and became a super-power. Heard anything about hiring literal Nazis for space program? Does that count as unethical or stealing for you?

No?

I mean Nazis are bad, right? They were supposed to pay for what they did. But not these ones, these were the "good ones", so it's fine?

What about tech and knowledge stolen from colonial eras? Too old? it was the norm, not relevant anymore, it's okay when we did it or any other bs reason you come up with. However, doing the same now is unethical because the colonials created the "WTO" to protect their interests, but others arent playing your game, you're losing, and it's just not fair?

It's fine when you steal tech and talent (even if they were helped cause genocide) and US isn't shy supporting Israel do genocide again.

But as soon as other country uses what's made made available to them, use spies, and steals, It's unethical. The IPs that few countries arbitrarily created after looting through the whole world? How fucking convenient, eh?

Suck it!

I don't particularly like China but it's hilarious to think they'd be western puppet and do as they were told forever. Every other nation would do the same if roles were reversed.

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hey, don't invade other countries mkay?

Considering recent history, you'd better say that to US more, don't you think? or is it that your country is free to invade other countries but others doing the same is where you start considering human rights?

Talk about hypocrisy. fuckin hell, read a history book.

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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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