Blame gamers for embracing every single greedy move and asking for more. If you shout how fucked up this is and still open your wallet, you are the problem.

If you actually bothered to read, you would know that it shows 0 trackers because Facebook doesn’t embed their trackers in the SDK, and inject them later once you grant them the permissions to the device, exactly the same way WeChat does.

That’s an oxymoron. Apart from having a dedicated device, you can’t really sandbox the app since it requires basic permissions to function that give access to core phone functions. See https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.tencent.mm/latest/
You can try to limit permissions of some features that you don’t intend to use.

Google and killed projects.

They get a few % from app sales and ads if they quality for the highest tier, but most OEMs don’t.

Again, US is the only western country with Apple being in the lead. In all other affluent western countries, Apple is 2nd or 3rd by market share. Just recently, they even fell to 2nd place in Western Europe, which everyone said was impossible just a few years back.

You are using data from US only. Globally, Apple share fell to 16% in 2023 Q3, they are big, but far from the biggest player in global market.

12% is the max for Android OEMs, and they have to give a lot of concessions to Google to qualify.

As revealed in documents from Epic v. Google, Android’s “Premier Device Program” offers 12 percent search revenue to devices with “Google exclusivity and defaults for all key functions” and no rival app stores.

In raw numbers in might make sense for Google, but I can assure you, no Android OEM will see it like that in the next negotiations.

ROG Phone lineup would be interesting if they didn’t go with proprietary connector because now it’s useless. If anything breaks, they are the only ones that can repair/replace it, and once they discontinue all the accessories they will be just an expensive pile of waste.

That’s where infosec people are these days.

Not sure if this counts, but Path of Exile once in awhile. They release new content patches every 3 months and introduce new league mechanic. Some leagues are great, others are less so. It’s probably the only game ever played and continue to play on release.

That would be on brand for Musk, but I think he will stick with this one as it was his dream for a long time. After all he did buy back x.com domain from PayPal after he merged with PayPal back in the day.

They can scrape it now. Everything is publically available. But this data is not that valuable for them compareted to someone installing Threads, Instagram or Facebook app that has pretty much full access to your phone all it’s activities and information.

The bigger issue is that when they join ActivityPub, they will take advantage of existing content we generated and add their ads on that content for Threads users.

https://the-federation.info/platform/73
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats (also allows to look daily)

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse has some stats, but take them with a grain of salt. It’s slowly growing overall, but certain subjects are more active than others.

Path of Exile

Estonia has been testing it since 2015, but their projected timeline for adoption never realized.