alt Hacker News0.0001% of people are going to do that.
After talking to your third and fourth friend and explaining which twenty menus they need to navigate through to enable this, you'll give up.
This is fucking malicious compliance. Meta knows what they're doing.
This is like "web installs" on Android. Navigate the complex menus (step 1) to toggle the setting. Then for every APK, find the file (step 2 - not everyone can do this), say okay to the "scare wall" (step 3), the permissions screen (step 4), and beware any app defaults. Let's hope Google doesn't negatively rank the app in the SERPs. (And let's not forget the fact that Apple doesn't even allow this.)
Or worse - you have a nice trademark for your business or product, and google managed to turn 91% of "URL bars" through "web standards" and unilateral control / anti-competitive practices, turn these into "Google search". You type in Anthropic and instead of seeing their homepage, you see ads for ChatGPT. 50% of Google's revenue is trademark taxation.
Every single one of these big tech companies needs to be muzzled and broken up. And as an innovation, I wouldn't even suggest partitioning them by product vertical, but rather creating 5 clones of each business entity that have to scramble to compete from day one on every business line. Ma Bell style. Forced mitosis.
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> Or worse - you have a nice trademark for your business or product, and google managed to turn 91% of "URL bars" through "web standards" and unilateral control / anti-competitive practices, turn these into "Google search". You type in Anthropic and instead of seeing their homepage, you see ads for ChatGPT. 50% of Google's revenue is trademark taxation.
This is preposterous. You'd see ads for Gemini, not ChatGPT.
> This is fucking malicious compliance. Meta knows what they're doing.
And so do the courts. Give them some time to cook. How goes the popular American saying: We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way.
> This is fucking malicious compliance. Meta knows what they're doing.
Wait, you mean passing feel-good legislation has knock-on effects? Who would have thought?
It's because the real solution here is to move away from this proprietary malware to protocols that are open, so that anyone can write or fork a client. (For instance, see Molly for a fully Ungoogled Signal.)
It's difficult when it comes to messengers, but reasonably easy when it comes to Google and Android, for which good alternatives exist (e.g., DuckDuck on GrapheneOS.)