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App developers think that’s a bogus argument. Mr. Bier told me that data he had seen from start-ups he advised suggested that contact sharing had dropped significantly since the iOS 18 changes went into effect, and that for some apps, the number of users sharing 10 or fewer contacts had increased as much as 25 percent.

aww, does the widdle app's business model collapse completely once it can't harvest data? how sad

this reinforces a suspicion that I've had for a while: the only reason most people put up with any of this shit is because it's an all or nothing choice and they don't know the full impact (because it's intentionally obscured). the moment you give them an overt choice that makes them think about it, turns out most are actually not fine with the state of affairs

“Well, but if we couldn’t commit this crime, our business couldn’t exist.” Sounds like your business shouldn’t exist, then.

so refreshing to see that from elsewhere too. same stance I hold about so much of the awful shit in the world (including an internet primarily financed through surveillance advertising), and it’d be great if more people bought in

although with how many businesses are speedrunning dumb choices (like the alexa thing etc), maybe that day comes sooner than not

I'm so glad the dmca is a good law that doesn't have any potential for abuse:

"totally not a cult" says leader of group that milks rubes for large sums of money to place them in isolated environs with extremely atypical lifestyle facilities

one moment you're paying rent, the next moment you're an "attendee"

zero mention of what kinds of infrastructure is available

And we have plenty of day passes for visitors.

day... passes... to ~~summer~~ brainwash camp. which I bet there will be an application process and "admin" for

ah fuck I wasn’t aware of this, thanks for mentioning

off the list they go

brb calling the burn unit

I've barely started reading and I'm deep in wtfs. this is such a weird hitpiece.

watching the chatcontrol shit from afar has been extremely depressing

and it's the idea that'll never die as long as police/security forces are built the way they are right now, which doubly sucks

nearly every word of your post demonstrates a comprehensively thorough lack of understanding of how this shit works

it also demonstrates why you're lost about the "effective difference"

I don't mean this aggressively, but you really don't have any concrete idea of wtf you're talking about, and it shows

so when you can't get the retail and/or enterprise markets to give you enough money to get dem gainz you were hoping for on your grift, ah yes naturally it should be government money that bails you out. got it.

An interesting turn

also capitalizes a couple other racial group references when the mood strikes, all "tactically" used/chosen

the amount of effort you have to expend just to hate that specifically.... fucking mental