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At least you can read it without unblocking js. That’s becoming rarer and rarer.

the ads, bloat, spyware, needs to go

They just introduced them. What makes you think this isn’t an integral part of the future of Windows?

I guess they were hinting at an AI dystopia which would be “the worst”.

technology that propels us also further

How does that apply to facial recognition tech? Its sole purpose is surveillance. Yeah and the negligible added convience to unlock your phone without touching it. I guess that justifies it to many.

Well, anti-vaxxers probably know more death among their family and friends making them cynical.

You need to understand to correctly classify the danger though.

Otherwise you make stupid decisions such as quiting nuclear energy in favor of coal because of an incident like Fukushima even though that incident just had a single casualty due to radiation.

On a local pc no less. They don’t use password repos at Microsoft?

Well, TikTok made an estimated $9.4B in revenue in 2022 making that fine 3.7%. That’s pretty big.

Textbook Apple fanboy reply.

suggest to their customers that it’s new and innovative

I’m a big Apple critic too but to be fair that message reads pretty neutral. Where do you see the claim it’s new and innovative?

Yeah. Well, the whole point since the top level comment has been that people are willing to pay too much for their hardware…

I give up. Stay happy with your overpriced devices.

My point is that Apple is price gouging.

Neither one counter example nor whataboutism change the fact that Apple products are overpriced in general (and always have been). Or how do you explain their unparalleled profit margins?

And yet, people buy iPhones instead of 3 Mac minis.

They are a real treasure trove though. Those crypto token thefts show there’s much money in that. I wouldn’t bet my most sensitive data they covered every single attack vector - external or internal. You managing your password locally may be much less secure but it’s also much less likely you’re directly targeted.

They said it late in the pandemic too: we may be tired of that virus but unfortunately it doesn’t care and it is not done with us.

Not really. The article basically says “it’s very different and we have no clue how it will behave”.

While it does sound plausible, can we please not make Tiktok an acceptable source?

Your quote is worthless, that summary doesn’t give any reason what’s problematic about the browser.

It’s also unfortunate that the article’s author chose to start with politics - I prefer technical reasons to stop using technical tools.

The crypto bullshit and injection of affiliate codes to URLs are indeed problematic. However, to me that just says to stay vigilant when using Brave but it’s still not as bad as Chrome.

Personally I use Firefox anyway but unfortunately, webdevs get lazier every year and only test Chromium browsers and sometimes some stupid website doesn’t work correctly on Firefox. If it’s something like an airline checkout I need a fallback browser and today that’s Brave.

I had an iPhone 12 for two weeks before I returned it. I tried to like it because, while you’re still in a corp walled garden and they cannot really be trusted, they so far are better than Google at least with regards to privacy.

However, there’s a list of stuff that got me too annoyed. Some examples:

• the stock keyboard is just garbage. All the infamous typos on social media come from iPhones because they choose to correct words that have already been written. You also cannot sensibly replace the stock keyboard because you cannot block a specific app’s data usage and keyboards are far too critical apps to grant internet access.
• stock apps are good overall (better than Android) but that means people don’t make replacements. The mail app could’ve been great but they choose to not support PGP and it’s practically impossible to set up.
• you cannot replace Safari completely, some apps still open it. Safari is crap because no way to install adblock.
• you still feel that iOS wasn’t developed as a multi-threading system. I had a few apps that wouldn’t correctly work while in background
• apps are far more expensive than for Android. Lots of subscription-based plans, more comparable to full-price PC software than mobile apps.
• no native file system access. Apps are sandboxed and handle their files themselves. I prefer to do that myself but no chance on iOS.
• the community is garbage. Every question or critcisim is the user’s fault. The Holy Corp does not make mistakes. Collective Stockholm syndrome.

I also ran into various bugs. I do on every platform but the “it just works” narrative is especially strong for Apple and it’s just not like their fans claim.

Great. Now give them a couple more years to learn they shouldn’t be installed by default in the first place.