RT is a Russian propaganda outlet, full stop.
Apple charges unreasonably high profit margins on its products as its primary business model, along with locking down their ecosystem to push overpriced subscriptions to the detriment of competitors, to not need the same level of invasive data collection that powers Google's advertising business.
As long as corporate news outlets and social media platforms continue to control the narrative, they can spin stories in Trump's favor to keep his approval rating artificially high as he plunges the country into despotic wreck and ruin.
Versus Russian missiles 'accidentally' causing death and destruction in Poland near its border with Ukraine?
There's many reasons not to get an iPhone, but privacy worries, in contrast to Android, is not one of them.
Rather than take an all or nothing attitude on the matter, I certainly think your friend would be better off trying make smart choices with his data whenever possible. Ultimately though, it's something that he has to be motivated to do himself. Perhaps informing him of potential privacy risks would be helpful in that regard.
DC gets three electoral votes for presidential elections; it's Congress in which they're not represented.
That won't keep them from harvesting user data.
Not the corporate one, with 680 employees in Washington, D.C.
To keep Radio Free Europe from degrading to the level of Russian propaganda, any and all fascist influence must be removed and kept out of its administration.
If Radio Free Europe gets EU funding, it should be reincorporated in Europe and the remainder of its US operations relocated to Prague to avoid any American influence on its reporting and continued defense of democracy.
Most should offer alternative support options, even if they can't promote them directly in their apps (a monopolistic practice on the part of app stores), given that forking over 30% of a subscription's cost to Apple or Google isn't something I'd want to do just to support an app's development.
"Shareholders want them to pump out loot boxes, not novel content!" -Exec, probably
Loving the new features so far, especially the improvements to Lemmy Explorer that facilitate community searching! Going to wait a few days before posting more suggestions from the list I've been compiling, so in the meantime I'll stick to reporting bugs as I find them.
In this case, the new loading icon seems to get stuck, as such:
If I were to upload a video of the glitch, all frames would be like the image above, as the loading icon gets stuck. Thanks again for all your hard work!
Apple disabled the feature in the UK because the alternative, per the British government, was to add a backdoor to it.