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Apple engineered a situation in which true browser competition was not allowed on iOS, making Safari's terrible platform the best anyone could get.

Having defanged browser competition, they leveraged Safari to extract monopolistic rents. That it *also* protected the App Store from real competition was a nice-to-have:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/11/23913287/us-v-google-apple-search-deal

PSA for anyone who has a Stadia controller: if you want to prevent it from becoming e-waste, you should update it to Bluetooth mode *now*, even if you don't plan on using it yourself anymore - that way it can be used as a stand-alone controller in the future. ​

This update is possible until December 31: https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_US.html

When you have been using Mastodon for a while and you finally install Linux

YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers more aggressively, here's how to bypass it - gHacks Tech News https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/10/youtube-is-cracking-down-on-ad-blockers-more-aggressively-heres-how-to-bypass-it/

“He knew he'd face opposition. So…they tore up the pavement from about a 20-block area and put down cobblestones. And when people came to work on Monday, at first there was outrage from the merchants; where would people park? But by the middle of the day, they'd seen such an increase in foot traffic and people down there enjoying themselves that the merchants from surrounding streets were demanding that their streets to be torn up so that people could walk to them.” https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/10/06/bill-mckibben-talks-about-why-the-week-without-driving-campaign-is-only-the-beginning