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@[email protected] @[email protected] It also means more chrome based browsers. Apple was the last stand before google hegemony. That's not a good news.
So, this could be a dumb question, but will IPAs have this region-locking?
Like, can I use something like AltStore to use the EU version of Firefox?
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Fuck Apple.
so does this mean i can finally install extensions on my company issued ipad?
of course mozilla still has to develop a whole new browser, but will this mean they get to?
PLEASE MOZILLA 🙏
Apple's censorship and control have been intolerable since the iPhone launched.
It's your phone. Not theirs. That's what the money was for.
This is why I I'm not a iperson
As soon as I get that visa, I'm running to the EU. I don't feel like dealing with more freedom that only the EU can get, I don't feel like being jealous at them anymore, I might as well join them.
not with the current "shift to the right" we're doing. these parties will do and say anything to get into power and foreigners out of their country.
but me and many other average citizens would very much like to welcome you with open arms.
Yeah, some politicians are straight up weird.
In their defense, though, some immigrants are straight up weird (keyword: SOME).
Honestly, I'm the kind of future immigrant who hates his country with an absolute passion and refuses to be patriotic or nationalistic. I literally cannot integrate into my own society. Also, criminalization of LGBT rights. I just gotta mention that.
The EU really does feel like a great place to be in.
on the 'area to exist in' list, europe definetely ranks very high.
the high cost of living is definetely a thing to consider, but wages are pretty fair if you learn a specific profession and you get pretty good healthcare by default.
plus almost everyone under 60ish years of age speaks english to a degree, so you can bridge the gap of learning the local language pretty well.
oh yeah and we take human rights at least more seriously than the US of course.
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Apple must allow under EU regulation, full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone.
I wonder how long it will take for Mozilla to make a proper iOS version. I suspect that Apple didn't give them any notice.
They didn't have to. The EU regulations have been public for a while now, the only question was how Apple was going to comply.
True, but I don't think a fund limited organisation like Mozilla is going to spend a lot of money and time on a maybe.
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Likely the UK eventually as well, when the Digital Markets Bill comes through.
Article talks about how Chrome will be happening almost immediately and I'm like… why? Why would you switch to Chrome when you know it's going to reduce your ability to keep things private. Firefox will be a different story hopefully, but even then it will be interesting to see if it can pass the fingerprint test finally on an iPhone. (Currently nothing can.)
People use chrome because they’re used to chrome (and because it has the best website compatibility thanks to its near monopoly). And most people sadly don’t care about their privacy.
I personally try to use as little Google products as I can and am happy using a mixture of Safari and Firefox (depending on the platform)
Are you fucking kidding me?
That was always a bullshit move by Apple and crippled the Firefox product in an unacceptable and cartel law questionable dimension. MS had a Monopoly on IE, by giving advantages binding it to the OS? Apple did the exact same thing on iOS with Safari.
The problem is that the US doesn't necessarily regulate anticompetitive behavior if the company has not achieved a monopoly. Microsoft pretty much had one at the time so they were exposed. Our regulatory regime is not designed to protect us from the tech oligopoly
If only the US had the balls to keep these trillion dollar companies in line instead of the other way around.
-sent from my smartphone made by an equally shitty company.
Hardly
Look up fairphone.
...who also ditched the 3.5mm jack.
Sorry. Couldn't resist. Irks me way too much.
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The US absolutely has the balls. They're currently bound and being used by the corporations to lead us around.
Yeah, we should probably say something about how they treat us, but God damn if our politicians don't have the biggest fucking orgasm every time a billionaire compliments them.
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Always remember what comes first in any national emergency. Whats the first thing our leaders always make clear when the chips are down?
"We will do everything necessary to protect our beloved ~~nation~~ ~~society~~ ~~struggling citizens~~ ECONOMY."
People don't matter here, only capital. If you are attached to meaningful capital, you will want for nothing and live in embarrassing decadence that would make pharoahs blush, if you aren't attached to meaningful capital, you are livestock for those that are. You are less than human in the eyes of the capital hoarders in charge.
Those are our American Values in practice.
If only the US lacked the corruption...
It's not corruption, it's working as intended. The citizens united case ruled that paying off legislators is equivalent to voting. We literally live in a textbook oligarchy, this is how it works and it's working by design that way.
I feel like your point is almost excusing it. Just because the corruption is working doesn’t mean it’s not corruption.
It's not an excuse. The system isnt broken and needs to be reformed. The system is working as intended and needs to be abolished.
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It's more that corruption is to say the system isn't supposed to work this way.
corruption noun cor·rup·tion kə-ˈrəp-shən Synonyms of corruption 1 a : dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as government officials or police officers) : depravity b : inducement to wrong by improper or unlawful means (such as bribery) the corruption of government officials c : a departure from the original or from what is pure or correct the corruption of a text the corruption of computer files d : decay, decomposition the corruption of a carcass
It's not dishonest or illegal behavior. It is entirely within the fucked up letter of the law. Systemic change is needed not purity.
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I'm not sure what you mean by ; keeping in line..
I mean they're collaborating with them to spy on the American nation and the entire world, with their creatively named secret projects..
As an American (optimistic hostage) I couldn’t agree more.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
With iOS 17.4, Apple is making a number of huge changes to the way its mobile operating system works in order to comply with new regulations in the EU.
One of them is an important product shift: for the first time, Apple is going to allow alternative browser engines to run on iOS — but only for users in the EU.
Apple is clearly only doing this because it is required to by the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), which stipulates, among other things, that users should be allowed to uninstall preinstalled apps — including web browsers — that “steer them to the products and services of the gatekeeper.” In this case, iOS is the gatekeeper, and WebKit and Safari are Apple’s products and services.
Even in its release announcing the new features, Apple makes clear that it’s mad about them: “This change is a result of the DMA’s requirements, and means that EU users will be confronted with a list of default browsers before they have the opportunity to understand the options available to them,” the company says.
Apple argues (without any particular merit or evidence) that these other engines are a security and performance risk and that only WebKit is truly optimized and safe for iPhone users.
But in the EU, we’re likely to see these revamped browsers in the App Store as soon as iOS 17.4 drops in March: Google, for one, has been working on a non-WebKit version of Chrome for at least a year.
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