Eggyhead

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Advertising existed fine before the tracking part became an entitlement.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

randomizing can make you stand out more as an outlier

I’m sure, but if you have a specific set of colors matching a specific picture on your phone that nobody else has, I imagine that would be more easily traceable than if it were automatically switched out every once in a while. Granted, the other aspects you mentioned might be enough to just render the effort redundant anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Got a recommendation? Preferably a privacy-respecting one?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Tapping in a text field used to just put the cursor there. Double tapping would select the word, and triple tapping would select the whole sentence. At least I think that’s how it was. Now tapping almost always selects the word (sometimes it weirdly doesn’t, and it’ll select the first word of the next line if you tap the end of the line above… why would that be intended?).

If you want to place the cursor between two words, it best to use the cursor by long pressing the space bar or physically dragging the cursor (unless you’re very good with where you tap). If you want to add some text to a middle of a sentence, you’ll have to think very carefully about how to accomplish that without redundantly needing to retype some words that you had intended to keep.

Also, if an incorrect word gets auto-typed, hitting delete just removes the whole word instead of allowing you to just delete something like the last letter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Some things change that never needed to. Editing text in iOS inexplicably got so bad in 17.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Basically Android will change its UI coloring to align with your background image, and 3rd parties get access to knowledge about your designated UI colors, right? I get how that can be a privacy concern.

What happens if you set your wallpaper to automatically change every other hour or so? Does android allow that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

For me it’s Jessica Chobot replacing the journalist in Mass Effect 2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder if their long-term game is to open their own storefront on PC to better compete with Steam and Microsoft.

I think if they were to do that, simultaneous PC releases would be far more likely.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Welp, this might be kbin for me. It’s the only circumstance I’ve really found a PWA necessary, although I’ve considered making PWAs of some online shops I frequent.

I suspect Apple is eliminating PWAs from safari in the EU just because they don’t want to be forced to allow 3rd party browsers to do the same. Let’s go ahead and throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I’ve actually got a U.S. apple account on an iPhone bought in Japan, and living in the EU temporarily. It’ll be interesting to see how this is going to play out for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

So, in other words, the AVP is apparently popular enough that journalists write articles if some end up getting returned. I guess that’s quite impressive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is a meta account required?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ads don’t bother me as much as their invasiveness. I block ads because…

  1. if a business is dirty enough to resort to interference with popups to get attention, I’m not spending money there. Period.
  2. I don’t want to support mass surveillance perpetrated by the industry.

Give me simple tech ads on tech sites, grocery ads on store fronts, travel ads on travel articles, etc.

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