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same here, hearing about green chat hate was completely bonkers to me.

oh yeah. I stopped pirating during the golden age of Netflix because it was just more convenient to pay and stream. Now piracy has become the easiest way to get new content again.

On the other hand, I've found Samsung phones in the past 5-8 years to fit my needs in a way that other phones (including pixels and iphones) don't.

/c/dundermifflin@kbin.social already exists btw

Every startup now:

This is eerily similar to that episode of Black Mirror...

In my view USB-C is old tech. I like it, don’t get me wrong, but it’s old old.

As long as it works for the next few decades, this isn't anything to worry about.

There are phones which aren't sold in the EU which could have other connections. Now they can't be sold in Saudi Arabia as well. It's probably not a large number, but even if it's 1,000 less phones that use a non-USB-C connection, that's still 1,000 phones.

Don't get me wrong, I agree Saudi Arabia is doing this for their external image, but you can't deny it has some consumer benefit for their citizens, however small.

People tend to trust your opinion more when you have an established account.

Huh, interesting. The only time I looked up someone's post history is I couldn't tell if they were a troll or serious.

Remember when home internet didn't have data caps?

it’s going to suck when the next, better standard comes along and the are all these laws preventing phones from adopting it

this argument keeps being trotted out.

1. Standards can change.
2. The USB-C protocol allows for future improvements. The spec allows for charging at capacities far higher than exist today, and the connection type so far supports USB3.0, 3.1, 3.2, USB4 and even the unfortunately-named USB4v2.0. The USB-C connection type will still be around for USB5.3v2max SuperSpeed or whatever it's called in 2030.

They are not pro-consumer. They are doing this because EU has done it.

Doing it when another country has already done it is still more pro-consumer than not doing it at all.

wait i did not know that. how??

I don't see why accounts should be valuable enough to be worried about.

When I was on reddit, I would start a new account every 2-3 years.

I'm still waiting for them to change the godawful quick toggles. Not only do the quick toggles take up so much space now (it almost feels like accessibility mode is on by default), Wifi and Mobile Internet are hidden behind a second layer of toggles.

no, they can't. they would have to install software on your phone/computer to do so, and that triggers a whole bunch of warnings.

If you read the link you sent, you'll see that those tools don't exist on most websites - it's a dedicated software for screen recording so product managers can understand how users use the site.

It's actually a great example to highlight what I said - on most websites, you can't track detailed user behavior, only clicks and the time of the click. You need to install software to find that out. On apps, you can track where the user scrolls, where they stop scrolling/scroll more slowly, and a lot more.

On a website, all you know is that the user took 2 minutes between loading the page and clicking button X. On an app, you can see that the user scrolled on the right edge (probably right handed), paused along the way at section A, exited the app (maybe they got a notification), came back to scroll down and click on button X.

I got locked out due to living in Germany :/

Germany has good data protections, so blocking German users says a lot about what they do.

Websites can track clicks like you said, but on top of that, apps can track where exactly on the screen you tap, how long you scroll, where on the page you paused to look, etc.

thanks!