Because “the church” only ever attract megalomaniacal fantasists who are prone to abuse their power.

I have no idea exactly what that means.

But Apple provides extensions for most functionalities, but, as you mentioned, they’re more limited because Apple used to require that extension developers register a $100 per year account in order to develop extensions.

They don’t do this anymore, but it was a big reason why Safari got held back, especially in the beginning of the browser wars.

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Duh. The dude has the intellect of a 90-year-old rotten turd. What the fuck did you expect from him? Are you fucking stupid enough to think he would do any differently than suck Elon’s ball sack on the front lawn of the White House in front of a bunch of cameras?

If you did, I found the Trump voter.

While you are technically correct in that, everyone operating in Europe is required to comply with a GPR, there are many who don’t. And they face varying levels of punishment.

But Saudi Arabia is not in the EU, and social media company can register in whatever country they want despite their ownership.

So what will happen? They will fragrantly violate the GDPR, and escape any fines due to jurisdictional limitations. And even if they do face fines, there are some… “Political “ways to negate them.

Sadly, even Europe, as progressive as it is, sterilize on Saudi oil. That can always be used to pressure government representatives into complying with their well rather than the Will of the people.

It’s not capitalism without exploitation.

Personally, I find Safari to be a goddamn amazing browser, especially considering a lot of its features. People here, the free and open source folk, absolutely hate it on the sole purpose that it is owned by a corporation. And, although it does share user data, anonymize’s that data to a great degree, and also prevents fingerprinting. Also, Apple does not sell it data that it collects, they only use it for internal purposes.

I find no problem with that. I think another huge issue is the difficulty in writing Safari extensions – – especially, that you have to pay for access to the developer store (although they may have changed that for Safari ext devs).

I’m a user experience, designer, so whenever gives the best experience to the end user is, obviously, the correct choice. There’s only so much the “experts” get to have a say in how any random individual uses the tools at the disposal.

That said, I absolutely love Safari as a web browser, but I definitely understand how a lot of people do not.

Although I may not have been as effective as seeing it, that’s pretty much what I was trying to say. Thank you, I suppose, for putting it into more understandable and relatable terms.

That is always the operative word. Except for those who don’t can’t and will never accept that that word exists.

Can’t disagree with you there

Nobody here is whining. I’m just surprised.

It’s OK if you understand that. No one will hate you for it, I promise.

I like it, myself, but not when it’s a major global multi billion dollar corporation doing it.

I suppose. One of my favorite games is from 1992 and called ultimate underworld.

It was a far superior game regarding storyline, plot, and gameplay.

But I’m not here to yuck anyone. Although that is quite literally what I did.

Only in that they are both particularly anti-competitive. Mobile Safari is, whatever all others may say, far better than chrome, and it’s a pretty awesome browser.

But it does have some limitations to it that a very vocal minority absolutely hates. And that’s fair, but let’s get real about what is “holding back” other browsers: market share in monopoly.

My iPhone 14 Pro has no AI and still works as wonderfully well as it did the first day I bought it. And I know that on iOS, you can simply disable the AI element.

But, yeah, the “promise of AI” was always bullshit.

There are people who still admit to playing World of Warcraft to other people?

Yikes

As far as I know, Saudi Arabia is not subject to the GDPR. They already have your data and will do whatever they want with it. I really don’t think there’s anything you can do to stop them.

But if I’m wrong, please let me know.

The market is “free” to fuck you and everyone you know on the ass.

Didn’t you know that’s what “free market“ means?

I know that Japan has been that way for an extremely long time, so South Korea (which, despite what they would like to admit, shares a great deal in common with Japan) is the same way. Maybe I’m a bit biased because I have never thought about having a family, nor am I in anyway interested in having one, so I don’t really put a lot of thought into “would this be a nice place to live _ with my family_?”

Nonetheless, culturally ingrained attributes to any country can be extremely difficult to change, even in a long-term. Europe, especially northern Europe, has the best quality of life in the world. Most of the rest of the Europe has started to follow suit (until recently). If I could move anywhere right now, it would be either back to New York, or two, possibly, Sweden or Germany. Although, I admit, the ladder is starting to give me pause recently with the rise of the AfD.

Why my loyalty, for now, lies with the USA, I’m also disabled and queer. Our government and too many of the people here are hostile to such things, and becoming worse every day.

The real shame is that I don’t have a marketable job that I can use as a bargaining chip for ex patriation. Although, I hear that Sweden has a lot of ways to work around there, rather Stern immigration roles.

Perhaps it’s time to look back into that, since the last time I heard about it was about 15 years ago. Still…

At the same time, you’re hearing about countries like South Korea and Japan, and a handful of others, actually offering money for people to immigrate to their country. I suspect that, like in United States, some other countries are just so depressing, that no one wants to have a family there, while, as you mentioned, others are leaving.

Although, I’ve never thought of South Korea nor Japan as somewhere I wouldn’t want to live. Then again, I’m not interested in raising the family here, either.