Except... the article still wasn't about phones, or any device/OS. Just more people who didn't read it.
admiralteal
joined 1 year ago
You should read the article because this isn't about phone prices. It's about stuff that you actually can only buy from them.
We're backsliding from a world where you could have just one or two streaming platforms and basically get access to everything to one that's even worse than old cable packages.
Consumers are not dumb, they're just nearly powerless.
As I understand it, detecting an adblocker is a form of fingerprinting. Fingerprinting like this is a privacy violation unless there is first a consent process.
The outcome of this will be that consent for the detecting will be added to the TOS or as a modal and failing to consent will give up access to the service. It won't change Youtube's behavior, I don't think. But it could result in users being able to opt out of the anti-adblock... just that it also might be opting out of all of YouTube when they do it.
And while it will always be controversial, I'll say it over and over again: you MUST support some kind of adversarial interoperability for a messaging client, at least if you want me on your service. In the US, that means having some degree of SMS support since that's what most people can use by default. In many parts of the world (at least pending the new EU directive), you don't even have that since the primary means of messaging most people is proprietary services.
Signal walked back from even bare-bones SMS support in their app. If they had supported it, including forwarding messages to desktop/tablet clients , I am sure it could've given them a high degree of user retention. Maybe even some opportunities to conversion, e.g.,, a user getting a prompt when starting a new SMS that the sender is on Signal. They instead focused on maintaining the walled garden and that creates an INTENSELY high up-front cost. For someone like me, who puts a high priority on juggling as few of these apps as possible to communicate with people, it's an unreasonably high one. I have no more desire to try and fight to convert all my parents to Signal as getting them onto a Discord server or any other random, narrow-field service that they will not be able to ding strangers on.
It's absolutely unintelligible to me that no competitor has seen plainly what makes iMessage so strong: that it works by default with pretty much everyone with nearly zero friction to the user by supporting a nearly universal fallback.
It also is why it makes so much damn sense to me that the EU passed the adversarial interoperability rule. Because the had very close to nothing for a universal fallback.
Twitter is not and never has been an ISP or anything resembling an ISP.
You're making a conservation vs restoration argument here.
Restoration is what the guy is asking about, I suspect, not conservation.
Published 28 October 2005. This comic is about to be old enough to vote.
Feel it.
The literal subject of this thread.
You're in here arguing with people without even reading the headline of the article.
I really hate the attitude that everything is exactly the same and that nothing is ever worse than anything else.
There is nothing naive here.
Reddit changed policy and philosophy significantly and that's what led to the backlash and lots of users leaving. You know that and clearly agree with it. And using my comments for display purposes as part of the community under the terms and understanding I had 15 years ago is very different than using my comments to train AI and their new attitude that started this year.
Yeah, I encourage this wholeheartedly.