Musk knows he can’t hurt the big companies in court, that’s why he’s mostly suing small non-profit watch dogs.

Edit: Updated the title to reflect the update in the story. Seeing some comments from people who haven’t actually read the article.

**Update, September 3, 5:15PM ET: **Starlink has reversed course on its decision to not comply with Brazil’s block of X.

Two competing federation standards. The VHS and Betamax, or Blu Ray and HD-DVD, of 2024.

I guess I’m saying that I didn’t think the headline was too bad. There is a new PWA install flow that’s widely available on Android now, and phishing via that new PWA install UX is potentially a new hot area. I’m not particularly offended by calling that novel. Just my 2¢

Mobile dev here.

I’ll play devil’s advocate. Android streamlined the PWA install experience a few years ago. You no longer need to drill into a menu and select an add to Home Screen option.

On one hand, have more users using a better mobile experience, but on the other hand, I now have a lot of users that think they installed the native app.

I don’t think the end user should need to care about my tech stack, but I could see how a malicious actor could dupe people with this newer streamlined PWA install flow. These malicious actors probably caught a lot less people with the old menu > add to Home Screen flow.

Yeah, I forget what version of Android it went out in. I only really started paying attention when, at work, we realized that a lot of our unreproducible bugs were from PWA users claiming they had installed the native app.

And those mismatched PWA / native bugs were overwhelmingly from Android users on newer versions of Android. They thought the new PWA install user experience was for a native Play Store app.

The bugs were driving us crazy and then someone in UX caught the behavior on a user test.

I would argue that the new piece is that phishers are taking advantage Android’s ability to throw an install button in the browser.

Enough phones support that now, and they’re able to catch more people in their nets now that folks aren’t installing web apps from a nested menu item.

IMHO, getting people to install a sketchy PWA is going to be more successful with newer versions of Android that allow a PWA to throw an “install” button in the browser.

When I look at my mobile end users, the people who install PWAs are overwhelmingly on newer versions of Android, not older versions, or iOS. Opening the share menu and adding a bookmark to the Home Screen seems simple, but it provides an amount of friction that scares off a lot of end users.

Or just don’t connect it to wifi and use hdmi media players that don’t have ads in the OS.

Dude. You got a Dell!

Although searches for Firefox only ticked up slightly.

It’s not like they contracted some sort of terminal illness. Anyone can migrate whenever. It’s not hard.

Honestly, I prefer this Zoom-style view over the way teams segmented put camera-off people in that tray. Those people often got skipped over.

I tried JPEG XL and it didn’t even make my files extra large. It actually made them SMALLER.

False advertising.

Clown Strike’s only real crime is kerning.

Agreed. Just saying I that it’s basically the same platform and experience. They’ve just decided to only sell beefier / more expensive versions of the product.

Although, isn’t this just a rebranding and evolution of the Chromecast? Seems like the same experience and platform, but with Ethernet, thread / matter, more storage, faster compute, etc.

The real difference: