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That is super weird since cookie banners are the result of an EU law. If they implement a restricted privacy feature the whole EU would have made more sense.

Hopefully that is only for tests, would be sad if they start fragmenting the browser based on your location. Their market share is already low and this is a turnoff for sure.

Ray tracing would be a weird choice since the game uses baked lighting almost perfectly. You wouldn‘t even see much of a positive difference.

I guess the tech updates will be rather minor and only really noticeable if you play it side by side. The original still looks good the new version will look a bit better…

They want their 60$ again. 🤣

Just drop Windows an go Debian with KVM for your windows AV stuff works like a charm. Debian is a boring OS where stuff just works.

The problem is that is a very complex problem and even privacy minded people often get it completely wrong. They use this massive blockers and think they don‘t give away any data. In fact most of them block advertisements and trackers but in return they created a very unique fingerprint which makes it easy to track them and get the same data as if the would have seen the advertisements. Not giving away any data and making sure the fingerprint is not unique is a very rocky road with a ton of roadblocks for the use of modern conveniences. The average user shares all data that meta is collecting anyway, most likely already with meta. They have at least 3 apps that completely track them, they have a personalized advertisement id and so on. So why would they care? That is like worrying about getting wet while taking a swim.

For every other person, they have friends that use these services and so share your contact information with e.g. Meta. They work somewhere in an office and most user accounts are name based. There aren‘t usually a ton of anti tracking tools in big corps so Meta knows what you do for a living…

Riding the privacy wave is the wrong argument, because most people can not escape the tracking if they want to keep „a normal life“.

You have to advertise you are better then the competition! Nobody cares about who takes less data, but most people want to be part of the „next big thing“, the cool thing or just the same experience but without advertisement. That resonates with people. Customization is often also a good entry point.

They barely get any extra data from federating with you and your phone number is known by meta anyway don‘t worry. 🤣 It is almost impossible to have an active mobile number and have meta not know about it. Has been this way for over 10 years now. Also defederating entire instances because you do not like the owner rly defeats the purpose of AP.

Microsoft started notifying people about this month ago. TBH the outlook client is still god awful so most people will only use it in an work environment where edge is the default browser anyway. Also it can be changed to other browsers. The how is mentioned in the FAQ.

I rly don‘t see it that way. The main reason they went for ActivityPub was to fuck Twitter. They just want to bind users long term to Threads and the combination WordPress, thumbler and meta is a very strong argument. I don‘t think they care so much about the data of the small userbase. The care about potential ways to monetise NSFW content without alarming the advertisers. And they care about AP because that can make them even bigger then they are now.