They seem to be mostly upset about Apple requiring browsers on iOS to use Webkit instead of implementing their own backend. Which is yet another problem the UK wouldn’t have if they’d stayed in the EU, where that’s already been dealt with under the DMA.
According to the article, not that likely:
Terms requiring users to sue in specific courts are usually enforceable, Vanderbilt Law School Professor Brian Fitzpatrick told Ars today. “There might be an argument that there was no consent to the new terms, but if you have to click on something at some point acknowledging you read the new terms, consent will probably be found,” he told us in an email.
A user attempting to sue X in a different state or district probably wouldn’t get very far. “If a suit was filed in the wrong court, it would be dismissed (if filed in state court) or transferred (if filed in federal court),” Fitzpatrick said.
And changed the twitter ToS to require suits in a specific part of texas.
Elon Musk’s X updated its terms of service to steer user lawsuits to US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the same court where a judge who bought Tesla stock is overseeing an X lawsuit against the nonprofit Media Matters for America.
The new terms that apply to users of the X social network say that all disputes related to the terms “will be brought exclusively in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts located in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those forums and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum.”
X recently moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Texas, but the new headquarters are not in the Northern District or Tarrant County. X’s headquarters are in Bastrop, the county seat of Bastrop County, which is served by US District Court for the Western District of Texas.
The payments requirement was the only win Epic got in its case against Apple. Apple now allows external purchase links, with a bunch of requirements and restrictions.
Reddit also grew to 97.2 million daily users over the past few months, marking a 47 percent increase from the same time last year.
This is for the quarter that covers July, August and September. Last year, the API fee kicked in on July 1, killing most third-party apps, and the quarter would have also included any lingering drop in users from June’s protests. So, it’s a big year-over-year increase in daily users but that’s compared to what might not have been a very good quarter last year.
Yes. Twitter was first, then Reddit, now Twitter is another fee
They’re tracking people using their phone’s advertising ID. How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now
On newer versions of iOS apps have to ask for permission to access your device’s advertising ID; Facebook was very unhappy about that. Turning off Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Tracking -> Allow Apps to Request to Track will (should?) keep apps from getting your advertising ID. I’m not sure if Android has anything like that, but Google is an advertising company so my guess is No.
Apple already supports buying individual episodes on the iTunes Store.
Oops, I was in Settings earlier and must have made a mistake.
On Wednesday Mullenweg posted another ultimatum in Automattic’s Slack: a new offer that would include nine months of compensation (up from the previous offer of six months).
Upping the offer may get more people to take it, but now he’s going to get people sticking around to see if he’ll go higher later.
old.reddit still has RSS feeds for subreddits, if there’s anything you still want to follow there. e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/technology.rss
The lemmy community for my city is completely dead, so I follow the subreddit this way.
I think their mobile apps were in on the contact snooping too, it wasn’t just Windows
Pricing seems to be the same as the previous version. They could have at least charged a little less for the much shorter licenses.
My 100GB music library leaves less space than I’d like on a 128GB phone.
LinkedIn’s blog post on this isn’t at all apologetic, just “the privacy policy already let us do this but we’ve updated it to be clearer.” I was expecting them to say something accidentally went live early or there was some other mistake. Nope, it’s all according to plan. Fuck you LinkedIn.
It’s more about spite at this point
The ribbon was introduced in Office 2007. The backsliding started a long time ago.
The terms of service have now been updated, but ordinarily that occurs well before a big change like using user data for a new purpose like this. The idea is it gives users an option to make account changes or leave the platform if they don’t like the changes. Not this time, it seems.
They should be required to delete their training data and start over after people have had a chance to opt in.
This isn’t just in the US; I’ve got the setting in Canada and I’d assume it’s in just about any country where LinkedIn is available that isn’t on the very short list of exceptions.
Nah, the features nobody asked for will just be limited to ones that will provide a revenue stream.