Yup. If regulators make the rules, the rules are gonna be stricter and they're gonna come with punishments for not complying.
If Apple satisfies regulators enough that the regulators turn their attention somewhere else before putting anything on the books, Apple wins.
One can hope, but I suspect plenty will still be left when the dust settles and some will even come back. As long as there are actual users to advertise to and the platform maintains even the slightest appearance of legitimacy, businesses don't care. Money motivates these businesses, not morality.
Literally nearly every website on the internet does this. Even the ones you pay a fee to subscribe to.
Are you even a little familiar with GDPR?
Nobody is acting like they have a right to Facebook in this thread. Likewise, nobody is saying that Facebook shouldn't be trying to make money. The issue at hand isn't the choice between a fee and ads. The issue is that you have to pay to opt out of targeted advertising and that they're using dark patterns to encourage people to consent to targeted advertising.
So the suggestion above that this may be illegal is accurate. You're so focused on a person's ability to not do business that you're ignoring that there are laws regulating this type of behavior.
Maybe Apple is learning to implement things themselves before regulators force them to.
Assuming you're not a native English speaker. It's a filler word. It doesn't really mean anything, it's used more to communicate tone.
And I don't think you understand the problem. Nothing is preventing Facebook from displaying ads. Facebook's issue is collecting user data and using it to directly target ads. They can make it so that a user can opt out of personalized ads and still show ads to that person. Companies would still pay to display their ads, perhaps not at the same rate but that doesn't mean Facebook would be losing money by serving those users.
Let's not act like Facebook is going to go bankrupt if some of their users opt out of data collection and targeted ads.
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Don't worry, it's completely acceptable that you neither know about nor care about a billionaire's daughter.
Yeah, I got COVID after being vaxed too. My biggest symptom was just complete exhaustion and body aches. Mild cough for a couple days. It lasted about 5 days for me too. That said, I wonder how much worse it would have been if I wasn't vaccinated.
Exactly. Some people get a flu shot every year. Now it's going to be a flu shot and a covid shot.
Virus evolves, scientists do their best to predict which particular variants are or will become most prevalent. Vaccinations are made and administered based on that data. Rinse and repeat.
There are times when the models are wrong or variants progress in unexpected ways. In those cases you might see a mid-year booster.
Vaccines don't guarantee you won't get sick, but they reduce the severity and time to recover if you do get sick with one of the relevant variants. They may even prevent the occurrence of most symptoms depending on the person. .
Show me data indicating that a significant number of people who receive the vaccine are affected to that extent.
Anecdotally, nobody I know - including myself after being vaccinated multiple times - has had any significant negative reaction unless you count your arm being sore. "Unplayable" is extreme.
Edit:Wild - thanks everyone for your input. This just says something about basing a knowledge on a limited sample size. I see that it really depends on the person now.
I personally received the Pfizer shot as did just about everyone I know.
Yup. There are plenty of other options. Nobody needs xitter