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  • Safari in iOS 11 strips Google AMP links down to original URL for sharing

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    dysamoria said:
    Good. AMP was the last straw for me with Google. I stopped using Google search for anything but images (most notably reverse image search). I use DuckDuckGo now. Its image search is functional but inferior. Google's search was already pissing me off by how it makes too many presumptions and ignores quotes, etc.

    AMP was a completely enraging experience. AMP pages don't scroll like normal Safari pages, reader doesn't work on them, links don't work right in them, and they hid the original URL. The updated version that shows the original URL in a header bar is half broken most of the time. Complete garbage. I'm not going to consume the internet while filtered through a crippling pile of garbage like AMP. 

    Screw Google. They're just another freakishly huge and overbearing corporate monster that thinks it knows what's best for humanity. Their whole business model is to make product out of their users. I wish I wasn't so invested in their gmail service. I should move my saved messages to a local archive. The day Google rids themselves of Gmail, a LOT of internet users will be screwed.
    Agree with all the above. I dipped my toe in the water with Gmail but am so glad I stayed off it. I’m happy to pay (Fastmail.com) to run this important service and I maintain my own domain-name so I’m not tied to them either.
    watto_cobra

  • Proposed Australian law forces tech companies to decrypt customer messages

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    grangerfx said:
    A modest proposal: Make Australia the example. Open a data center in Australia just for data belonging to Australian users, just like they are doing in China. Give copies of the encryption key for each user to the Australian government. Let nature take its course. Then we will never have to deal with this idiocy again after Australia realizes that they have no privacy, no secrets and no security and their power grids and hospitals no longer function.
    Or even better - let Apple say, "well we won't sell the iPhone in Australia any more".  See how quickly they backtrack on this policy if there was a threat of consumers/voters missing out of new model iPhones. But still a small enough market that they could afford to miss a few months sales. 
    watto_cobralostkiwi

  • Proposed Australian law forces tech companies to decrypt customer messages

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    "Australia's Attorney-General George Brandis said he believes the new law can be implemented without building backdoors into encrypted platforms"

    That's because George Brandis is a world-class moron with no understanding of technology. He could be even define what "meta-data" was when they wanted to bulk-collect that. If he does an interview on this topic, and half-informed interviewer will tear him to shreds. 
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  • Proposed Australian law forces tech companies to decrypt customer messages

    noelosnoelos
    "Australia's Attorney-General George Brandis said he believes the new law can be implemented without building backdoors into encrypted platforms"

    That's because George Brandis is a world-class moron with no understanding of technology. He could be even define what "meta-data" was when they wanted to bulk-collect that. If he does an interview on this topic, and half-informed interviewer will tear him to shreds. 
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  • Inside iOS 11: Apple Music's social sharing isn't just Ping reborn

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    mdriftmeyer said:
    if it requires me to suscribe to Apple Music monthly then it is not a feature. It's just another optional service, and one I'll not recognize. I have zero interest paying for streaming.
    It's a feature of Apple Music - and Apple Music is a paid-for service.

    If you don't want to pay for it (or any streaming music service), that's entirely your business. For those of us who do, it's a nice little upgrade.
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