I think the implication is zero-click exploit.

But if that’s the case it should be fairly simple to reverse engineer whichever exploit they’re using.

I hope that the Unity CEO feels as accomplished, and prideful as EA’s.

This was Apple’s chance to up the bandwidth on their phone ports, it would cost them pennies (maybe less than pennies) and would give them a talking point. 6 years ago the 2017 Pixel 2 had USB 3.1 support. It’s 2023 now.

Apple is either trying to squeeze people as much as possible before it’s game over for their proprietary cables, or are afraid that people can’t identify which cables support which speeds. Maybe a bit of both?

Not acceptable for phones that are more expensive, to have speeds from a USB spec designed in the year 2000. Pixel 7 currently implements USB 3.2 standards, and with USB 4.0 (based on Thunderbolt, designed by Apple and Intel) on the way, I’m sure Android phones will be packing that as soon as they can.

NewPipe, and YouTube Revanced are great apps you can use on mobile. They aren’t attached to any Google account so you can just use them and skip adds all day without getting any account theoretically banned.

For those who continue to use YouTube and adblockers on PC, simply just make a new throwaway Google account. In the case that they aren’t actually bluffing (they are) then at least your temp account will be banned.

My foot’s already half way out the door. I have all my plugins and password manager ready to go when I end up making the switch.

The only annoying thing right now is, there’s no tab groups on Firefox, and Google sites like Gmail and calendar have a weird aesthetic behavior where scroll bars show up where they shouldn’t be. It’s like nails on a chalkboard but for my eyes.

I also really do like using GPay in Chrome on Mobile when it’s available but I’ll have to forego that, or just use it when I need to.

Sidenote, Google knows it’s coming too cuz they made their password manager much better, and released passkey support. The timing is too perfect, they want another reason for people to stay. Good thing I have my own password manager!

I dare them to fuck up Chrome. It’ll be the easiest switch of my life.