It really is too bad the universe forced me never to talk to you again though.
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Alphabet doesn't have to battle it.
If they just had copyright owners use the DMCA process, creators could counterclaim illegitimate takedowns and Google would have no liability for leaving the content up as proscribed by the claim process.
They choose to do their far more aggressive alternate system instead. It's not out of any obligation or legal exposure.
Acknowledging literally every change after any news content is published in any context isn't bullying anyone.
It's the absolute bare minimum to not be a piece of shit.
Proper security requires some level of intrusiveness if you want functionality as well. It's not possible to meet varying levels of required tradeoffs for different use cases without asking for informed consent to access restricted information or functionality with some regularity.
Granularity is a good thing. Making users notice privacy violations is a good thing. Windows giving a generic "can this program make changes?" dialogue to every installation whether it's extremely simple or basically a rootkit monitoring every process and memory access is a terrible, extremely insecure approach.
Too many popups is really Windows' issue. It's not that all the bullshit companies do doesn't require you to authorize it; it's that anything you install needs effectively the same permission and you're basically conditioned to ignore it.
Apple's version where it tells you what it wants permission for is much better.
In all honesty I'm split. There are times when it's more hoop jumping than I want to deal with, but I'm also closer to a power user, and am capable of at least finding the information on the hoop jumping. The fact that by default, an average user gets spied on less is a good thing. The insane malware developers call anti-cheat on Windows is a far worse default as far as I'm concerned.
Looks fucking dumb.
The symbol doesn't even mean anything but that it contains their metadata format.
I'm absolutely not. You're projecting your experience onto people who don't have it.
The idea that the average user can learn literally anything about how an OS works from a screenshot of a desktop or a table of features that means nothing to them is delusional. They have no frame of reference for any of it. It's completely and utterly meaningless.
Limitless was fun though.
No, the choices are absolutely not clear in any way. The literal only way to learn the differences in function is to use them.
It’s understandable some people get anxiety when presented with too many equal options, but the thing is they have to be equal options
No, they absolutely don't. That's not what the psychology says at all. They merely have to be difficult for you to distinguish at a quick glance. The fact that there are right and wrong answers for each person, while identifying what those right and wrong answers are is difficult is exactly the problem.
The idea that "it's obvious; you're not trying" isn't just laughable horseshit. It's also obscenely disrespectful. Because the people making the comments obviously don't know, and many of them have actually tried. The differences are way deeper than surface level.
Bandwidth is expensive.