No need to, but no need for it not to either. And no way to verify it isn’t beyond “trust me bro” and I don’t trust them

Surely that’s not zero knowledge since the government can see every site you visit, which is the whole point of these laws anyway

A duck. I get to walk swim and fly!

I looked further into it and it seems to be because on iPhone the restrictions were purely technical, it just wasn’t possible to publish anywhere other than the app store which apparently isn’t monopolistic.

However Google were apparently making deals to make the play store the more attractive choice despite the alternatives existing, which did count as monopolistic behavior.

Now in isolation I can sort of understand both of those decisions, and I don’t really care either way because fuck Google Apple and Epic, I want them all to lose. But in the context of both lawsuits happening pretty much at the same time this was literally the one result that made no sense. I could understand Epic winning or losing both cases, or even beating Apple and losing to Google, but this way round was just stupid and I think Googles recent behaviour is partially because of it.

Basically Epic weren’t happy with the 30% cut that Apple and Google take from app sales and in-app purchases so they introduced a direct payment method which bypassed Apple and Google’s payment methods, but was in violation of their app store rules. In response both Apple and Google removed Fortnite from the app store. Fortnite remained playable on Android because of sideloading but was unplayable on iOS (I’m not even sure if it’s back yet)

In response Epic sued both companies claiming they held an illegal monopoly. Somehow Apple won and Google lost

I also blame the Epic lawsuits. How the fuck did they lose to Apple but win against Google, the platform where Fortnite was still fully playable and monetised?

Apple shat all over those regulations with their implementation and got away with it so now Google are doing the same

You’re giving them too much credit. Their intentions are not benign and they are the authoritarian state

Thanks, I think I probably will end up on Artix eventually. I’m going to try Gentoo first just because it interests me though!

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You might need to make a new account because I think Lemmy.world defederated hexbear

Direct link: https://hexbear.net/c/mutual_aid

Yeah I think I will. This change alone isn’t actually that bad but it shows an eagerness to comply which I can’t accept. I’m not sure which distro to choose though, it’s probably between Gentoo, Artix and Void

So its time to move to a distro without systemd?

Republicans are absolute scum but they only exist in the US and are not in charge of every state. This is a bipartisan push around the globe.

Best I can do is a bunch of age verification laws to take even more control away from you

Let’s see if it gets released before GrapheneOS and unlockable bootloader get outlawed

It doesn’t have to be a new model though

Even if everything you say comes true I still don’t see the prices coming back down. They never did after covid

Get hacked and leak it for starters, as has already happened with Discord. And social media is a loose definition that can be expanded to include whatever you want. Currently Lemmy and Mastodon are not included but it could be. And Lemmy currently has none of my personal information so uploading my ID would be infinitely worse than what we have now. And before you say it’s not feasible to force all instances to comply or be blocked that won’t stop them trying.

That really doesn’t ease my concern that it’s just more government surveillance