Comment by Grombobulous
22 days ago
I just figured out that low power mode also disables HDR and that’s a one-click toggle.
So to me the user has an off switch and the content creator also gets to express their creative freedom to use the feature or not.
If you don’t want to see HDR content you can do something else with your day. Nobody is holding us hostage to use our phones in a dark room or scroll Instagram.
iOS does not have this switch and it’s a pretty common platform. Low power mode also disables other things. You can of course do what you want with your creative freedom, you’ll just have to live with peoples’ reactions for non-consensually showing them something they passionately do not want to see.
I just disagree with this concept of “non-consent” in this context.
This would be like buying a color TV and getting upset that the commercials don’t remain in black and white, and saying you didn’t consent to that.
But unlike in the color TV analogy we have two methods of disabling (low power mode and reduce white point setting) and we don’t just have 3 TV channels to choose from.
I will definitely concede that the browser and OS should have more controls around this feature.
Nope. It’s like buying a TV that suddenly gives content publishers the ability to show blindingly bright pictures regardless of the device’s brightness setting.
To become more metaphorical again, compare it to suddenly playing a loud, screeching sound or displaying porn or gore. The technology allows you to do it, but it’s offensive and you deserve the resulting anger.
That there is no viable setting to turn it off means there is no basis for consent.
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