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mgoetzke ◴[] No.41857244[source]
it also leaks the audio of tabs before logging in.

Even though I had disabled all 'restore' applications features, macos sometimes decides to 'start' browsers BEFORE logging in after a restart AND those start auto-playing audio from whatever was paused before the reboot (or many days before).

Since then I went rather deep disabling that feature, but I never trusted it.

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Jerrrrrrry ◴[] No.41857362[source]
They want their TCP/IP stack and safari browser hot and ready for their demanders of instant gratification.

In the long run, they barter this goodwill for "Safari is shit" credit until they and Google force the internet until a browser-turned App-Play-Store war.

Both companies win, and can blame the other company - all while incentivising anti-competition behavior and benefiting from their own organizational, yet altruistic, self-interests happening to coincidentally collude in similar, yet distinctly more complicated cases of creating monopolies spanning multiple domains.

The internet was captured, gamified, commoditized, and vertically integrated into a handful of giga-Corps.

your mobile devices are essentially tracking devices you are addicted to, and the government is too interested in these shiny grandiose things and their use in facilitating government functions without any real consequence, they fail to see the systematic risks that they themselves have allowed to proliferate by not enforcing stricter laws for systematically - exploitable intersections of law, technology, and business.

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lukan ◴[] No.41857456[source]
"they fail to see the systematic risks"

Or they also fail at providing a solution. Would you prefer diletantic government intervention in this area instead?

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phoe-krk ◴[] No.41857493[source]
The differences between governments and megacorps are dwindling and the two are becoming much more alike one another. We already live in global technofeudalism.
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eru ◴[] No.41857509[source]
Alas, no. By and large, governments are still vastly less competent than multinational corporations. MNCs also don't force you to pay taxes or buy their products.
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1. kibwen ◴[] No.41858819{3}[source]
> MNCs also don't force you to pay taxes

So wrong. Every dollar that $FOO_COMPANY shovels to Google and Apple to spend on advertising is a dollar that you, the consumer, end up footing the bill for; a dollar that does not go towards improving the product you receive in any way whatsoever.

The advertising industry itself is a tax on the price of everything.

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2. eru ◴[] No.41865369[source]
That's not a tax. That's just a payment they make for goods and services (in this case, ad services).

> [...] the consumer, end up footing the bill for; a dollar that does not go towards improving the product you receive in any way whatsoever.

Huh? You could make the same argument against providing free coffee for employees. Every dollar the company spends on coffee is one that they didn't spend on anything else..

And, obviously, ads go towards improving the improving the product I receive: without ads, I might have bought a different product or none at all.

Not all ad spend improves my experience, obviously, but neither does all spend on everything else. And I don't have to buy a product, if I don't like the ads.