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.

Hundreds of billions just to do the deportations, and then there’s the cost to the economy:

One study found that Obama’s Secure Communities program, which deported nearly half a million undocumented immigrants, not only pulled those immigrants from the workforce but had a ripple effect of decreasing the employment and hourly wages of U.S.-born people as well. Scaling their findings, the researchers estimated that for every 1 million unauthorized workers deported, 88,000 native-born jobs would be lost.

An analysis from the nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics released last month reached similar conclusions. Researchers found that a mass deportation of even just 1.3 million undocumented immigrants would lower GDP and reduce employment in the U.S. by 0.8% by 2028. A larger mass deportation of over 8 million immigrants would have a larger effect, lowering employment to 5.1% below the current baseline.

Undocumented immigrants also paid $59.4 billion in federal taxes and $37.3 billion to state and local taxes, according to a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. More than a third of those went to Medicaid, Social Security and unemployment insurance.

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.

Why wouldn’t he continue? It’s not like there’s ever any consequences for him.

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.

Vox half-assed their paywall - the full articles are still in the free RSS feed

My 100GB music library leaves less space than I’d like on a 128GB phone.

He’s rich enough to get several warnings before someone maybe considers bringing charges against him.

It’s “many” like in “Many people on twitter are saying…” i.e. they found 3 or 4 people saying crazy shit and acted like it was a big thing.

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

It’s an app for Windows too

The ribbon was introduced in Office 2007. The backsliding started a long time ago.