Basic EEE strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish). For example, take XMPP. It was a wonderful federated chat protocol. Google joined it with its Google Talk application. All was well. Until it wasn’t. You see, Google added some “new features” that could be used only with the Google talk app and account. So people flocked to it. All is still well. But then google decides to close the gates - Google Talk is its own thing now and you can’t talk to people on other servers or with other apps. Take what hapoened wit XMPP. Google embraces XMPP with Giogle Talk. Google add some shiny “new features” that are exclusive to Google Talk (extend). Google cuts off XMPP access to other domains other than the Google Talk domain, thus finishing the extinguish phase.

Just replace Google with Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg, Google Talk with Threads and XMPP with ActivityPub/Mastodon/Lemmy and you can see how it could happen. The XMPP Wikipedia page has it covered very well, and there’s a dedicated Embrace, extend, extinguish page on Wikipedia if you want to read more.

Yet Apple throws those phones out of warranty regardless of what caused the fault

Don’t forget adjusting for inflation and real money being given back not some shitty gift card

And yet they shit on Halloween

Isn’t preaching (i.e. telling people how to think) the basis of all religion, especially christianity and especially catholicism?

But if it knows everything, it knows nothing. You cannot discern a lie from the truth. It’ll spit something out and it may seem true, but is it really?

No, just make it a permanent cookie to reject so if the cookies get deleted (as they usually do) you’re back to being tracked

The overriding legitimate interest you speak of is so vaguely defined as to make a simple ‘yeah fuck you, that’s why’ pass the filter

Don’t you worry, the baby will grow in a few years and the cat overlord will have once again what was its to begin with

Bonus points if they are jaywalking because they have the right of way.

What does this even mean?

Makes sense

Can you elaborate? Don’t want to sound like an apologist, just genuinely curious

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I can’t see how Unity increasing prices is anti-competitive. If anything, them going brainfuck with fees can only serve to open the market to new players. Also, I doubt they’ll be able to make the fees retroactive, at least for games that won’t get updated.