> journalists who see adblockers as an existential threat
You mean bloggers.
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You mean bloggers.
As opposed to "pedantic"? Here's a quote from the article:
> The probability of data corruption scales with client concurrency, with the duration of transactions, and with the increased probability of intersecting working sets.
Were that true, you'd think Google would be able to find it.
Perhaps for kids looking for new books that's wonderful, but those of us that use books older than your mom, there are no ebooks. Google Books was literally the only place to access that information outside of a few select world-class university libraries.
Those two things are not even remotely related. Your knowledge of the permissions on a mobile device sheds exactly zero light on what is going on in the minds of the Spotify employees who participated in this decision.
I think Notch's response is quite accurate: “But I do understand how easy it is to make up small features to require access to the entire phone so you can sell your customers.”
Two things can be true at the same time. Just because the public, published reason is innocuous doesn't mean there's not some MBA just waiting to get his hands on that data.
That word has lost all weight, right along with "terrorist".
That would require the current admins to actually look at and consider the response. They could have mailed Putin himself as an attachment and it'd still be sitting in a spam folder...
In my very personal experience, their volume gives them enough influence to cause trouble, regardless of their size. "Reactionary politics" are a way of life now, thanks to instant global communication.
And the author wonders why things are like they are.