Yes. Still, it would be harder to not give a f if others walled gardens open up, and iMessage get disadvantaged by that wall.
It's as if iPhones were only able to make calls to other iPhones. Whereas all other devices where able to make calls to any device from any other vendor.
Apple would still feel pressure to add interoperability if all other big players do. iMessage would have a competitive disadvantage if it's the only one where users are unable to message the rest of the world.
Firefox Monitor and Firefox Relay are good ideas for subscription services that may be useful to users and hopefully get revenue.
When I looked closely at Firefox Relay, the email feature was redundant because I also have a service which does this, and the phone feature isn't available yet. Looking at Firefox Monitor and the list of companies/brokers it monitors, these appear focused on the US which isn't where I live.
I hope they can get revenue by promoting these services and making them useful for more people. This would be better than showing ads. I'd pay for a useful service, not to have an-free experience for something which is freely available with ads.
Interesting. I recently noticed new decorative lights outside a public building nearby. Instead of static white lights, these are red-ish, and slowly dim in and out in a sequence. This might be a way to reduce the impact on wildlife.
Firefox Monitor is great as well. The premium version looks nice, you can pay to have it go remove your data from many data brokers. It seems mostly focused on US brokers, I'd pay for it worked with more european data collection companies.
I observed racism and toxicity on X. Reported a couple pretty bad posts (eg a user wishing for drowning of immigrants), but the platform decided they're okay based their own moderation rules.
Great to see Taler continue to move forward. I hope a bank and/or fintech company finally adopt this. It shouldn't stay an experiment and deserve adoption for day-to-day purchases.
That's just one out of many chrome settings to keep track of. It's just easier to change browser and pick one that provide decent privacy by default. See Firefox, Brave, Tor Browser.
Hence, having a cup of Joe