Actually no, it's worse. Ad companies take everything they can from you using any method they can including monitoring everything you browse or watch on TV or say near your phone or TV or in your car or what you look at in every shop or what you buy or who you chat to, compile massive secret databases and sell 'you' to anyone willing to pay, regardless of what the information is used for.
Nonsense. Adobe had a flash to ios system ready to go to allow all flash apps to run, and Jobs deliberately blocked it from working, leading to the eventual death of flash.
Jobs was one of the main bastards behind screwing over engineer's pay.
Under Jobs we had soldered ram and ridiculous upgrade prices, changing magsafe port sizes just because, dropping OS support for official Apple modems when the majority of the world still had dialup, flaking cases and dodgy screens and phones that have to be held the right way, water sensors that react to humidity and void warranty, locking down ios upgrades to prevent downgrading, ebook price fixing...
It's not a safety check bypass. Boeing wants to make pilots responsible for turning off the deicer within 5 min of ice disappearing to prevent the flawed engines breaking apart in flight.
There is a grey area though when a company becomes the defacto monopoly over a service. Google and Microsoft email both have history of blocking email from other providers and have created a landscape where trying to run your own email server is a nightmare. But should they be able to refuse service to you if you block ads?
I can send the same mms from Android to Android and Apple recipients and they receive the same media. Yet sending from Apple to both the Apple users get good quality and Android Apple deliberately sends pixelated rubbish.
Because Apple deliberately screws with messages to non Apple users. Every video my family sends to me is low res heavily pixelated trash, to the point that you can't even recognise faces.
How is this not an abuse of market power where the Google controlled app store allows other browsers to be banned for reasons that their own browser would never be automatically banned for?
If Windows automatically started blocking access to Chrome for up to 2 weeks at time while Google appealed false take downs everyone would be flipping their shit, including governments and justice departments
this already happens with Excel and access. Entire companies rely on a spreadsheet some wizard invented years ago and now no one knows how to change it, and it goes weird if multiple users try to access it at once so make sure you copy it locally first and change the file name so you can track the versions
Incognito literally means to have your real identity hidden. It seems deceptive for a company to name/market a product as 'incognito' when it is literally funnneling data to them that identifies you and links to you real identity.
Especially when the text warnings do not explicitly state that browsing data is being sent to Google and added to their tracking and marketing database about yourself.
I was most surprised by Australia Post, after reporting a weird login issue during the start of Covid when everything was going to shit. It was took a couple of weeks before they got to it, but I received a couple of phone calls from the same person who genuinely wanted to help, who worked internally to identify and resolve with their tech teams.
Worst by far has been Nintendo Australia. Switch spontaneously stopped charging after being plugged in for a couple of hours. Retailer sent it to Nintendo who diagnosed internal damage to the usb port (caused by their official charger..), and they would only throw it in the bin for free or I had to pay to get the broken switch back or pay more for a refurbish. Then they lied about their complaints email and gave me their direct address. Then sent me a non functional switch back which I had the retailer replace on the spot with a brand new one (under Aus law this should have been the original solution, but my spouse had to drop it off and wasn't aware of consumer rights).
Excel isn't the only MS product with US date insanity. Outlook set up for AU region only supports date filtering in searches using US date formats, which is the icing on the turd sandwich of date searching as Outlook requires you to hand write in text search queries to search for before/after x date.
Doubtless the censorship also extends to publishing apps that are critical of topics Apple relies on for profit. A walled garden of Apple approved thought
Better idea would be mass cloning badges and flood checking in at multiple sites (it's amazing what unhappy engineers can build, especially if they are experience in aerials of remote access). Forced them to spend money researching a better system, meanwhile giving garbage results.
Actually no, it's worse. Ad companies take everything they can from you using any method they can including monitoring everything you browse or watch on TV or say near your phone or TV or in your car or what you look at in every shop or what you buy or who you chat to, compile massive secret databases and sell 'you' to anyone willing to pay, regardless of what the information is used for.