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In the idea that you can hit approximately the right key and it would correct to the one you intended.
In the idea that you can hit approximately the right key and it would correct to the one you intended.
FYI, Fleksy is up to date, free and uses a very similar concept.
I don’t think it is “forced”, just the new default (unless explicitly disabled in a view), which is nice to see. Additionally, I didn’t see much relevance to Play Store - it seemed to be a system-level thing.
I recall there being at least one content blocker that worked by heuristics instead of rulesets. Cannot remember the name, but it was clearly not as effective as conventional ones, because not all ads look the same and usually people want to block the invisible trackers as well.
The security tool will work in the background to detect apps that use suspicious permissions, like the ability to spy on screen content or read SMS messages.
What has “suspicious” got to do with “malicious”?
There was also a similar product that made your headphone jack a button. Nonetheless, I don’t really think phones need more physical buttons these days.
Yes, it blocks ads, and likely the YouTube ones too. The current problem with YouTube is just their anti-adblocker which needs very frequent filter updates and unlike MV2, filter updates in MV3 need the update of the entire extension (think approval periods etc).
Well, Firefox also plans to deprecate MV2 at some point (deadline to be announced at the end of this year), the difference is just that their implementation of MV3 is more flexible at the points Chrome was criticized for.
Vivaldi and Brave are planning to extend the deadline of MV2 by some extent, not sure if it means just like the enterprise policy or will they keep the implementation in code for longer.
IIRC their point was that SMS is insecure, so they don’t want people using SMS in Signal to think that this is Signal. With RCS, they could do what Apple will - be interoperable while providing extras with own platform (iMessage).
Admittedly, that doesn’t sound like enough reason to reimplement SMS and RCS alone would still be kind of inconvenient.
Okay, that is a very good point that I did not realize.
Because that way people thought they were directly paying for the service they were using, instead of being the product of said platform, having their personal data harvested and sold to the highest bidder?
Are you saying that people perceived WhatsApp as better than SMS or better than Facebook?
The red flag is to look at a free meal and not wonder what the catch might be. Especially to this day, with all we learned about what the tech majors do with all the data.
That’s not my point. My point is why would the majority of the world do this when they knew it was going to be paid.
I can’t think of other product examples where people would so gladly accept trial versions of otherwise free feature-equivalent services. Maybe WinRAR, but that could be replaced with any other product instantly anyway (no network effect), should it ever get enforce its trial.
Ironically, it got popular when it still tried to get users to subscribe to a monthly payment. And as it was one of the few messaging platforms to be (in the future) paid at all, I cannot understand why it ever got popular…
Well, sure, Meta cancelled the subscription plans later but to me it sounded a red flag in the first place.
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You still have ways to emulate it with software… Especially apps or Android 14 that make your flashlight act as one.
You can see the shape here at least:
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But is the QR reusable? If not, you’ll have to somehow prove your identity or existing number ownership to get a new one.
I can understand that part, but not why providing such update timeline would be “excessive” or “crazy”, if there are ways to achieve it.
How does it differ from buying a laptop at this point? The price is the same, the capabilities are similar, the form factor can be the same (Fold or tablets in general).
As long as the hardware can keep up with the software, and the manufacturer keeps building products, why should they ever end support? (a la Windows)
Some Chromium browsers like Brave and Vivaldi already announced they’ll extend it for as long as they can, and when they no longer can’t, they’ll think of something else like improve their own blockers.