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by mateusz_ 480 days ago
Then moving to EU would do the trick. We still don't have it
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Moving to the EU also fixes a lot of privacy and regulatory issues.

I still can't believe the EU ended up with the first official and fully legally protected alternative app store, it would have sounded crazy a decade ago.

I'm in the UK. After an update yesterday it was asking me to enable it on my M1 Mac
Apple Intelligence has been available in the EU since at least macOS 15.2.
Then we would have to deal with more pop ups. EU laws has led to as much enshittification of the web as any adtech company.
“Enshittification” is a specific and well-defined term for platform decay in pursuit of profits, it doesn’t mean “anything I dislike”.

This EU hate on account of the banners is misguided: We should be upset at the companies engaging in unfettered data collection and tracking, not the body that made it mandatory for them to reveal their practices. It’s as if your government enacted a law saying restaurants had to inform you whenever they piss in your food, you begin to see warnings everywhere, and then complain about the law instead of the rampant pissing.

You know that's literally impossible for most people, right?