I believe that option is coming down the road. Currently it’s a differential feature that I’m sure Google and others would never implement because it would interfere with their ability to track customers. I promise you your connection is traveling across Google’s network when using chrome on iOS.
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It depends. As example, here overtime is strictly regulated for most employee positions and HR is responsible to ensure it's not abused. Of course the company as individual entity can be sanctioned, but also individual employees especially at executive level can be held accountable if the regulations are not followed, either due to malice or negligence.
The situation you describe is not realistic here for that reason, but I can understand it can be in different contextes: that's not an issue of the company construct itself, it's an issue of laws and regulations either being not strict enough or not being enforced strongly enough.
Demotion or firing are private matters between the company and the employees: a civil or criminal sanction is a whole different matter and again it depends on how strict the laws and regulations are and how seriously they are enforced, not an issue of the company construct in general.
Interesting read. Most of the responses from individual web app developers moan that Apple WebKit makes like more difficult and/or expensive for them.
The weighty and considered response from the Developers Alliance, however, takes a more balanced view arguing, amongst many other things, that consumers prefer a closed ecosystem.
Microsoft oh Microsoft. They are mad because, like before sometimes, they didn’t get on the right train at the right time.
The only real place Microsoft has in this world is being the maker of Windows, the de facto default computer OS, and their Office apps,
they tried MP3 players, smartphones and all that stuff, IE or Edge didn’t make it and almost all „analysis“ of the traffic of their customers/users devices ran through Google.
They tried to somewhat gain traction with Bing, which is and always was a laughable attempt, and now this: dozens of VPN providers and stuff like Private Relay mess that up even more. They sure are a silly bunch. Had Gates not betrayed Jobs, Microsoft wouldn’t be anymore, and there is reason why.
Anyway.
What real alternatives? They are all based on Apple's Webkit.
Kind of.
It turns off most others ability to access and only allows Apple to harvest the data.
Run your Privacy Report. Turn PR on and run for a few days. Then pull up your privacy report. This will give you an idea of what it does.
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And yet it's all but dead. It's not 'Music', and still sucks, but I oddly don't care anymore. *shrug*
Well it is a problem here in the US, very common, and it is due in large part to the way companies are constructed with many layers to insulate those truly responsible and benefit from the practice. I personally had to fight Warner Bros to get paid overtime pay. It took months and I had to get my union involved. If I didn’t belong to a union I would probably never have been paid the thousands of dollars I was owed. Not to mention how often they get away with it. For every person who catches them there is probably several who don’t. And no one was punished in any way, nor was there a fine.
I certainly found Android a pain. The possibility of an app working/not working being sometimes difficult to assess, especially as your device gets older.
I think that if someone offers an app at £1 on Android, I actually wouldn't mind having to pay, say, £1.30 for it on IOS if that covers the excess cost to developers.
I remember what I did but don’t know how it resolved the problem.It is a mesh network, yet the same SSID is shared across them. It's a Cisco system, and apparently the system was a bundle, and should have had their 'mesh node' boxes in it. Cisco claims that the more advanced boxes *WILL* mesh, but from what I'm seeing, it might be having issues. I get solid service across the house, which I never got before (Velop, just say no) and after my iPhone drops its connection, my iPad will be happy as a clam surfing right along. It makes me think that it might be an iPhone problem.
*shrug*
YMMV.
I changed my SSID while enabling the Guest network on my Eero system, then reconnected most devices. I ran into two issues: iPhone would not stay connected when Private Wi-Fi Address was active, and an old Canon printer couldn’t connect with WPA3 and 5GHZ enabled. The eero app offered to temporarily pause 5GHZ during setup of the printer & I manually disabled WPA3. After that was complete I had the iPhone forget the network, then reenabled 5GHZ and WPA3, connected the iPhone to the new SSID & turned on Private Wi-Fi Address. Printer connected, iPhone no longer dropped.
I wish I could pinpoint exactly what did it. Here’s hoping that the play-by-play might hold something that helps your situation?.
I'm aware in the US there is a very different situation regarding overtime. I'm still unsure the issue is the form of incorporation since basically the same forms of incorporation are used in other countries where the overtime issue is much less pronounced.
This may be the stupidest one yet.
"BuT mUh BrOwSiNg ExPeRiEnCe!"
-NO CONSUMER EVER
Seriously, we are opting for the specifically to gain the privacy benefits at the potential loss of internet "magic", so please just speak for yourself and kindly take your concerns on my behalf and shove it up your charging port.
"BuT mUh BrOwSiNg ExPeRiEnCe!"
-NO CONSUMER EVER
Seriously, we are opting for the specifically to gain the privacy benefits at the potential loss of internet "magic", so please just speak for yourself and kindly take your concerns on my behalf and shove it up your charging port.
Sure, but the way the laws are written here, those companies have the same rights as individuals which make it easier for them to influence the laws to their advantage and shield themselves from almost any accountability. They use that political power to weaken unions, and support politicians who will write laws that favor their bottom line. This is why democracy is so fragile right now. They have use that power to influence the electorate via right-wing media outlets. It’s sad really.
Interesting, I will need to check that out.
It is almost like there needs to be a coordinated group of Apple users that can weigh in with a "we like our devices pretty much how they are, don't mess with them", because it seems like consumers are being ignored.
We need a polling to show if apple user wants it or not.
It‘s similar, but not identical to a VPN. For practical purposes when using Safari, you can regard it as working like a VPN. Your requests are encrypted and handled by a combination of Apple and Cloudflare. But you can’t pretend that your requests originate in a different country (e.g. to thwart BBC iPlayer), and it only works for Safari.
Thanks. Sounds good to me, I was just reading about the upcoming changes the government here in the U.K. are making to the 'digital bill' and it's too restrictive and intrusive for my liking. Hope this Apple feature can hide my data from them and everyone else trying to make money from it.
The new bill is a bit of a worry. Even with Private Relay enabled, you may see the nanny state swinging into action if you happen to browse an “adult” site (you will still be identified by the site owner as a UK user). On the other hand, such sites can determine that you are using Private Relay and may choose to ignore the law when that is the case, because the only person who knows about it is you!
Check with your ISP settings that they don’t have child-safe settings enabled (e.g. BT), as that will interfere with Private Relay. If you have such a setting enabled, you are granting the ISP permission to snoop on your traffic, which is obviously incompatible with Private Relay (as it shields your data from the ISP).
Haha I’m not bothered about any ‘adult’ websites, more I don’t want the government snooping on me, they have enough information as it is and still manage to lose it. I’m with a small ISP which is more business orientated so no child safety settings to worry about.
My main concern is this government seem to favour a lot of control over you, and that breaches right to freedoms to me, you can’t even express your opinion incase someone thinks it’s a hate crime and you get arrested, the Police have to act on hate crime reports like a Twitter or forum post. It’s ludicrous. In Scotland they have even made it law that if you say something in your own home, and it’s deemed a hate crime and you are reported for it the Police can arrest you for it and charge you. Not even what you say in your own home is safe.
Fast forward a year and I'm now seeing this, on Sky fibre in the UK:
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