kernelle

Aren't we all 10, 40 and 80 at the same time?

If you read it as "a website providing a service, but that service is also available elsewhere" the analogy makes perfect sense.

What are you talking about ofcourse they can, it's an activation which is stored on their servers, edit the FMI database and your phone is activated. They chose not to provide that service because they can't know if your device is stolen and it's way to much of a hassle to confirm you actually bought it. iCloud unlocking is a widespread phenomenon.

There was a blog post here recently where a repair technician with his own shop was trying to contact Apple about reportedly stolen iphones being reactivated and resold and it undermining his business. They then found more and in one case it was a rogue Apple employee doing the activations, and in another it was software tools they found and send to Apple, which got ignored for more than half a year.

I can't seem to find the original article but here's Louis Rossman explaining the same thing. The argument boils down to the fact that Apple doesn't care, more iphones means more people with wallets attached to them.

Also, it wouldn't necessarily be public knowledge on exactly how it's done, otherwise 1 Apple would try to fix the issue or 2 there's money to be made in selling the service.

Edit: typo

Both Apple's and Google's activation locks are actively being bypassed though. It's probably not being done by a run-of-the-mill thief, but it can be done, if not for a price.

I think this would make for a pretty fine walking stick if you ask me, doubles as a bush clearing stick when needed

Hence why it might be hurtful to small creators. I'd love to see the numbers on that though, as the overall percentage of people using an adblocker is very low, I assume for Sponsorblock it's significantly less.

You're in luck! Someone made an Android port years ago, and it's available on F-Droid! Definitely still enjoying it as well.

Maybe people are to harsh on the author for their writing style. They tell the reader that they don't have experience in the field themselves but rather dipping a toe in the world that is SEO. I for one had no idea of the scale of the enterprise, figures they quote from years ago which make your jaw drop.

Obviously the people who work in SEO will make it sound like honest work. As long as there are search engines which got to have accurate results, there will be people trying to place their website above another one. High rolling SEO consultants probably aren't that concerned with the content they are promoting though, just the fact that it gets promoted, raising ethical questions.

As of a some years ago, I too noticed a decline in quality from search results. The face that Mr. Sullivan made snide remarks about it actually improving made me frown pretty hard. Between displaying the same spam website multiple times under different urls, literal bait and switch scams and literally impossible to find niche shit sometimes. I've unironically used Bing more this year then ever in my life, but mainly DDG for a good 5 years.

I use Lemmy Handshake, an android application which keeps them in sync as wel!

I mean, at this point it seems like a pot and kettle situation here