Comment by swiley

>I clearly outline how “a feature the user can disable” is the same as “a gdpr/cookie/telemetry/etc prompt the user can reject”

You're clearly wrong then. iOS already does something similar with location and doesn't suffer from this problem.

>It doesn’t take a VC to make an app, I made some starting in HS (with push, yes), and you can too. Be the change you wish to see.

That's actually kind of upsetting. On my other machines I do fix problems. The cost of volunteering to deal with apple's shitty phone is an overpriced machine where even the old used desktops are more expensive than the modern one I just built, the time it takes to learn a new language and an (IMO pretty crap) environment (GUI toolkit not withstanding,) the time it takes to maintain an app for a platform with constant API churn, and $100 a year for a developer license (nope, you can't use push notifications without paying this.)

Here's the change I want to see: people abandoning an abusive company. I'm buying a pinephone so that the next time I have a problem I can deal with it without having to buy the beater car equivalent of a computer (and spending as much.)