Yups, that's what I was getting at. There can be very good reasons to do things that are impopular with end users.
At the same time, without reddit turning to shit, Lemmy wouldn't have thrived the way it is now. Change is part of life, as is platforms turning to shit. You move over and learn to deal with it. You might be able to nudge it in the right direction, but in the end, corporations gonna corporate.
I was getting "suggestions" to install apps for streaming platforms like Disney or hbo which I had to scroll past before I could start the apps I installed myself.
Maybe you're on a different firmware version from me.
As long as the cropped picture contains the required colour variety, fine by me.
Now, the real remarkable thing is the fact that you think those two settings are comparable, or that it somehow makes a valid argument.
edit or that you posted this argument so many times. You might have some repressed issues. Honestly, as long as all parties involved are consenting adults, it's okay to like what you like.
What a stupid title. As if anybody's buying smart devices in the hope they'll be worth more someday.
My on topic advice: if you rely on your smart TV to get to your content, you're going to have a bad time. Get a small computer instead, and treat your "smart" TV as a monitor, nothing more.
I did get myself an nvidia shield last year, and after switching out the stock launcher for something that doesn't show ads (and better yet, launches straight into plex at boot), I couldn't be happier.
In my experience, these kinds of programs tend to do that. But if the first step of a guide is "go download the dodgy software from a third party file hoster", that's about as big as red flags get.
the futures of both Meta and the Fediverse are heavily intertwined: both are dependent on one another for their success.
That very much depends on your definition of success. If that means monetization, then probably, yes. But if you mean quality content (for the fediverse), I very much doubt it.
Yeah, that's why I think it's debatable. It's a lot easier to make those decisions on traffic coming from a known vpn ip, versus all vps providers in the world - many of which have corporate uses.
On the other hand - if you're smart enough to set up a vpn, you'll also be smart enough to set up ad blocking, so the point is kinda moot anyway. Plus you'll be a lot less likely to have your traffic logged opposed to a service vpn.
That's debatable. In my estimation, by using a "service vpn" you're giving advertisers some other kind of demographic information, namely that you're the kind of person that pays for a vpn.
What the title and bot don't mention: They did so by installing spyware on phones of users of a vpn they acquired:
After Zuckerberg’s email, the Onavo team took on the project and a month later proposed a solution: so-called kits that can be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific subdomains, “allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage,” read an email from July 2016. “This is a ‘man-in-the-middle’ approach.”
What's more:
Later, according to the court documents, Facebook expanded the program to Amazon and YouTube.
Ha, same. Best thing I can do for my social security number is "That looks about right".