Thanks for the explanation. I had the wrong idea that it could be due to, for example, if A->B belonged to a different provider than B->C, providers not reaching an agreement on what % to take each, for the journey from A->C - hence increasing the overall cost for covering demands from both.
I feel you. Unfortunately, I don't think GDPR will be of much help on that case. A fine of up to 1% of they're revenue will hardly make a dent - it's just another tax. Misbehaviour will be still worth it.
Actually GDPR is of great help to them, by putting smaller competitors away from using similar techniques. For those, a 1% revenue is a lot.
In the UK, JustEat takes 30% of the order, same as UberEats, with 0 liability - if something goes wrong with the order, including problems with delivery time, driver taking a nibble, the restaurant just doesn't get paid. Deliveroo is a bit greedier and takes 35%.
It's definitely not the lack of competition... it's just that the competition doesn't behave much better compared to them.
Not that Teams is better but I feel like Slack started to die the moment it removed IRC and XMPP support. That was their only clear advantage over the competition.
The inability to turn off notifications shouldn't be a feature. People (at least me) want more work time, less noise.
Voice/video chat is completely broken (at least for Linux).
Having to very often "clear the cache and hard reload" on the "native" app, makes me feel I'm using a bloated browser tab.
How, with all those quirks, do they want to compete with Teams - (from a well established company with such a big user base?
I know this is from 2007, but it's funny this is coming from Microsoft... with all the W10 metrics, telemetry and spyware bloat that replaced the old and effective "Send error report" button. Kind of seems like they didn't follow their own advice - provided user satisfaction is actually what's on the line here.
Genuine question, is this not considered a DoS attack?
Let's imagine I have my online stock linked to limited physical items/assets, ex tickets for a show, which will get reserved for a period of time. This will be preventing genuine clients from buying them.
They don't need to know what my individual preferences are, actually, I would be glad if they don't try to "find them out".
Are you sure they're trying to ship what works best for most people? I've not read that anywhere. If they really wanted people to have a choice, they wouldn't be adding configurations that can't be switched on/off through they're preferences menu - like for example, that crazy bar they just added a couple of releases ago - oh.. and which apparently you are not allowed to switch off no more, not even through about:config, according to sibling comment. Also, they have a track record of breaking old configuration options quite often through updates.
I am grateful by what they offer - just not sure they're not sneakily changing course, similar to what chrome did.