Hey guys, let's use user agent strings to guess if it's a mobile device and then serve up a different web page with different assets based on the debunked hypothesis that having THREE manually created or asininely configured tool chain images of different resolutions will keep our file sizes small and our UX lean and performant. Nevermind it creates two separate codebases to maintain. Nevermind the 20,000 SQL calls buried in our legacy code required to even load the login page. Nevermind we could use responsive css. Nevermind we could have our developers read a book with that time. Nevermind all our efforts to make a mobile page resulted in something with 95% the same load time and all we did was create a problem with our clever UX instead of letting the browser handle it.
Oh and most important of all, nevermind that after we spent a month making it that we didn't even test if it's faster in slow mobile network speed situations that we assume exist despite that being an obvious extreme edge case for anyone that can do their own thinking.
Apple is way ahead of fuckers trying to pull shit. Apple now uses 3rd party relay servers to reprocess data to anonymize searches to google services and other services that recently started using JAVASCRIPT WEB COOKIES!
Its wild west. If it gets too unruly, exotic lesser known privacy browsers (real ones, not Brave), will evolve and become popular, but apple adding a middle layer is a sledgehammer solution to user tracking.
[ - ] try 1 point 2.9 yearsJul 1, 2021 13:02:53 ago (+1/-0)
yes, and not just thwarting search engines... apple also is clamping down on APPS being used by webs sites to track activities... 3 weeks ago apple announced :
[ - ] bobdole9 1 point 2.9 yearsJul 2, 2021 00:10:06 ago (+1/-0)
If you browse the internet from a mobile device, most browsers will display the site based on the size of your screen. Sometimes important shit is chopped off, so pressing "Show Desktop Site" is telling your mobile browser "Fuck you, give me the real size / normal computer user view of the website" will display all the shit, but it will also be incredibly small. Pinch and zoom is your friend.
[ + ] Rayden
[ - ] Rayden 6 points 2.9 yearsJul 1, 2021 09:27:17 ago (+6/-0)*
Oh and most important of all, nevermind that after we spent a month making it that we didn't even test if it's faster in slow mobile network speed situations that we assume exist despite that being an obvious extreme edge case for anyone that can do their own thinking.
[ + ] try
[ - ] try 2 points 2.9 yearsJul 1, 2021 09:49:12 ago (+2/-0)
Its wild west. If it gets too unruly, exotic lesser known privacy browsers (real ones, not Brave), will evolve and become popular, but apple adding a middle layer is a sledgehammer solution to user tracking.
[ + ] Systemisgay
[ - ] Systemisgay 2 points 2.9 yearsJul 1, 2021 12:48:48 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] try
[ - ] try 1 point 2.9 yearsJul 1, 2021 13:02:53 ago (+1/-0)
Apple’s move to tighten the flow of user data makes advertisers uneasy
https://eminetra.com/apples-move-to-tighten-the-flow-of-user-data-makes-advertisers-uneasy/587183/
But all this is probably evil stuff in china, and the opposite of privacy goal in china
[ + ] ClitorisDestroyer
[ - ] ClitorisDestroyer [op] 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 1, 2021 17:28:04 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] i_scream_trucks
[ - ] i_scream_trucks 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 1, 2021 22:45:05 ago (+0/-0)
baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha
no
just no.
[ + ] bobdole9
[ - ] bobdole9 1 point 2.9 yearsJul 2, 2021 00:04:24 ago (+1/-0)
+1 for responsive CSS. My front end developer appreciates it.
[ + ] Rayden
[ - ] Rayden 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 2, 2021 22:47:09 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] i_scream_trucks
[ - ] i_scream_trucks 2 points 2.9 yearsJul 1, 2021 22:44:20 ago (+2/-0)
it just changes the display layout man
[ + ] account deleted by user
[ - ] account deleted by user 1 point 2.9 yearsJul 1, 2021 14:27:32 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] bobdole9
[ - ] bobdole9 1 point 2.9 yearsJul 2, 2021 00:10:06 ago (+1/-0)
Really its arguing over semantics.