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Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible (letter.open-web-advocacy.org)
submitted 10 months ago by libreom@lemmings.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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We need to exert more pressure on apple and eu to not remove PWAs. Every signature counts, please sign and share EU has already started a preliminary investigation on this http://archive.today/2024.02.26-223134/https://www.ft.com/content/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6adc

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[-] danielbln@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Windows is the one where I need an account to install and that spies on me and throws ads in my face, that one?

[-] Quastamaza@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Last time I checked you could sign in without a Microsoft account by deliberately interrupting your internet connection while setting up Windows.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

They even have an offline installer mode with local account only. Just need to download the correct image from the Microsoft server.

[-] brakenium@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

You don't need an account. De-bloating scripts take care of most other annoyances. You can fairly easily beat windows into submission

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

You don't need an account.

Technically true but worthless to your average consumer. You need to interrupt the installation process, enter a command in a terminal after knowing how to access the terminal and then you can use a local account.

This is worthless to your average person.

The same argument applies when Linux neckbeards waddle out of a basement to declare something is simple; just open terminal and do Y.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

The average consumer doesn't know what NTFS or FAT32 is. I don't think they'll understand the privacy implications of Windows reporting.

[-] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Not tried in a while but it used to just be a case of leaving it disconnected from the net during setup.

Failing that you can still sign up with a throwaway account and convert it to local in the options after installation iirc. It's not ideal but it's still something at least.

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

There are additional steps now which I mentioned.

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