lka1988

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Google itself started in 1998, and launched their ad stuff in 2000. They've essentially always been an advertising company.

Sweet, sweet analytical data....

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

Every company who takes a cut from in-app purchases, be it subscriptions or DLC, should be kneecapped by this ruling.

It's one thing for the hosting marketplace (App Store, Steam, Play Store, etc) to take a cut from the initial purchase of a game/app. But it's a whole other issue for that initial marketplace to keep reaching further into the dev's pockets and take a cut from in-app purchases unrelated to where it was originally obtained.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wow. That's pretty shitty.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Is that what you’re referring to?

Yes (I thought it was more, but w/e). I'll admit, I don't know a whole lot about development and everything that it entails, but nuance is key here. Say what you will about Proton, but this ruling just set a precedent that a company hosting an app/game download cannot take a cut from purchases completed within said app/game. That affects everyone.

I'm just looking at this from a bigger picture perspective. Apple has more than enough money already, and frankly there are far too many companies like this who need to be cut back down.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

If someone purchases a Proton plan through their iOS app, Apple got a 30% cut of that. Which is stupid. Because Proton (and every other company with an iOS app) already pays Apple to simply have their app on Apple's app store.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 7 months ago (25 children)

getting rid of the apple tax is good for consumers.

I mean that's not wrong. I had no idea Apple was double-dipping like this. I wonder if Google is doing the same thing...

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Good. If I download an app with the intent to pay a content creator who uses that app to post content, I don't see why my choice of app store should have any bearing on how much of that money goes to the content creator, nor why the company who hosts that app on their store should get any income from said internal payments whatsoever.

Patreon (and everyone else) already pays Apple to simply host the app in their store. Apple is double-dipping by doing this and throwing an absolute fit comparable to that of a toddler who was just told "no".

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My work's filter tagged the link as "Phishing". Seems suspicious. That said, it works fine on my personal device; got a valid certificate and everything.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

DietPi looks interesting, especially for a 0W and my older B+ model that's just hanging around doing nothing...

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm running Pi-hole and Pi-VPN on a Zero W (using a Geekworm case w/RJ45). It's not very taxing at all.

I also run two other Pi-hole instances in my server cluster (one in Docker and one in an LXC container). Mostly just for uptime reasons, so I can take any one of them down at any time to perform maintenance and/or upgrade.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago

I'm reasonably certain the name was intentional because of the way it could be phrased.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Communicator should be in there somewhere, too

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