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French Users Flock To Bitchat Amid Social Network Shutdown Fears
France’s interior minister floated suspending social networks amid riots. Offline messenger Bitchat surged.
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Withdrawal Symptoms on The Long Goodbye to Big Tech
The first few weeks with an alternative are often the price of having one.
EU Piracy Watch List Targets YouTube Downloader and VPNs
An open source project maintained by volunteers has found itself under scrutiny from the global music business.
Google Android ID Rules Take Effect In Four Countries
Google’s identity checkpoint has arrived, and sideloading now comes with paperwork, warnings, and a waiting period.
Reddit Is Ending RSS Support, Citing Scraping And Abuse
Reddit says abuse forced its hand, but the economics of an open web tell a sharper story.
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F-Droid Grew Up. Not Everything Came With It.
F-Droid is betting that an app store can be easier to use without becoming another machine for harvesting attention and data.
Sony Says PlayStation Users Never Owned the Digital Games They Bought
The lawsuit claims Sony misled PlayStation users by selling digital games as purchases that are actually licenses.
Nitter Goes Dark After X Corp Cease and Desist Letters
There was no revenue here and no competing product, only a way to privately read public posts that the platform did not control.
Nintendo DMCA Takedowns Hit 400 GitHub Emulator Repos
GitHub's policy says it sides with developers when there is doubt. August 17 was apparently a day without any.
Google Starts Asking for Developers' Papers on September 30
The thing that made Android worth choosing is now a setting you have to search for.
Apple's Toll Booth Gets a New Coat of Paint
Apple overhauls EU App Store fees under DMA pressure, but developers still pay a commission on external link-outs.
Google Apologizes for Vanished Lord of the Rings Purchase
It took a Reddit thread, a supervisor and a man quoting a licensing clause back at its author to restore three films to one library.
