Category: Tech Freedom
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Google Opens the Play Store to Its Rivals
The company that turned sideloading into a chore is about to let you install its competitors with a single tap.
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Apple Loses EU App Store Gatekeeper Appeal
Apple tried to convince a European court that one App Store was secretly five.
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California Wants a Watcher Inside Every 3D Printer
California decided your printer should treat you like a suspect.
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The Malware Excuse Behind Amazon’s Locked-Down Fire Sticks
The company that floods your home screen with tracking ads now blocks the apps built to hide them, all in…
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Reddit to Require Login for Old Reddit, Curbing Anonymous Browsing
The determined scrapers will just register accounts and keep harvesting, leaving the anonymous human reader as the only one actually…
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Sony Kills the PlayStation Disc
Sony just decided that “owning” a PlayStation game is a privilege it can revoke.
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Sony Deletes 551 StudioCanal Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
Ownership is slowly moving onto servers a few companies control, and the storefront hasn’t admitted it yet.
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How Apple Lost in Brazil and Won Anyway
Apple turned a regulator’s order into a set of fees and reporting rules engineered to keep competition out.
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The Web Is Splitting Into Approved and Unapproved Humans
Google asked permission to gate the open web in 2023, got rejected, and just shipped the same thing as a…
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Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
The company that decides whether you’re a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.
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Brussels Wants Google’s Search Data
Brussels wants the data shared at the same speed Google reads it itself, to recipients the proposal hasn’t finished naming.
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You Don’t Own Your Kindle Books. Here’s What You Can Do About It.
The open source ebook ecosystem now has a genuine answer for every piece of Amazon’s walled garden, if you care…