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Still sounds gross. While the developer might have opted in to selling your processing power to scrape websites, I doubt the users of each extension opted in.


Makes no sense. Am I supposed to run out and buy a new piece of equipment just to log into Reddit? 🙄


Current implementation seems like overkill. Why not just:

  • Search “Eiffel tower”
  • send search term to Apple server that already exists (Apple Maps)
  • server returns gps coordinates for that term
  • photos app displays photos in order of nearest to those coordinates

I don’t really understand the purpose of the feature — GPS tags are already embedded in the photo by the phone, so it knows the location of each picture. The phone also analyzes faces of people you’ve identified so you can search for people you know. What else does this new feature add?


I think it was his end run around Apple donating the money directly which would have been a complete disaster. I don’t think Cook supports trump in a “rah rah” sort of way, but knows if the company doesn’t pay him suck up money, it will come back to haunt them later.

Either way, it’s still gross.


Apple opted customers in, got sued, and will now prompt customers if they want to be opted in or out.


So is there a way for businesses to disable this garbage feature through managed device settings or something? I’m guessing corporate legal departments aren’t going to be too thrilled with this feature.



They’ve already announced they’re working on RCS support. Should be interesting to see how they adopt it considering the obstacles like adding encryption support, working through Google’s implementation, etc.


Updating to the browsers listed isn’t going to solve a problem like the one you describe. Extensions and plug ins are still a thing in modern browsers.


Your browser isn’t supported because the developer or product manager who put the website together doesn’t know what the fuck they are doing. What could possibly require some cutting edge feature on a language learning website?



Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.


If you’re using actual apps for things like Twitter, the data should be siloed. If you’re using a web browser, then things like ad tracking cookies would be accessible between sites/pages.


“Threads can go to hell”
Sounds like Meta wants to force you to give them your phone number.
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Is that Google’s head of marketing in the photograph?