Usb3 also causes interference with wireless transmitters
Oh god I hate this so much. The proliferation of USB 3.0 devices in the office has made 2.4 GHz keyboard and mice nearly unusable. I’d much rather they change the frequency to fix this than whatever thunderbolt stuff they’re dealing with right now
You want more cables?
Yes, I absolutely want different cables with different connectors.
Being able to physically plug two USB-C devices together is not a benefit if the devices can’t actually talk to each other properly on the cable. I’d much rather have three different connectors, each of them guaranteeing protocol compatibility, than USB-C for which any given device-cable-device combination, the behavior is nearly impossible to predict.
Yea, because Apple is allergic to GPL
Tracking ads is also a problem, just a different one. The whole point of ads is to manipulate your behavior. There’s plenty of reason to not want to make that more effective
I don’t think the car manufacturer is getting that data, but iirc the part of Android Auto that runs on the head unit does collect data when disconnected, then send it to Google when the phone is connected.
Firefox still leaks enough info to get a good fingerprint off of you