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The solution is to stop using platforms that are so actively hostile towards people's freedoms.

Edit: folks downvoting my comment are deluding themselves. Apple is hostile towards freedom. It is only by regulation and laws that we're able to gain any, and they actively lobby against those.

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It's a relatively low effort comment, but I'm not actually sure why you're being downvoted for this.

If you value being able to use your device in whatever way you please then I'd agree it's kinda silly to use an iOS device. If you're the kind of person who's going to want to use obscure search engines or side load apps then maybe an iPhone just isn't for you.

I suppose the pushback would that "freedom" comes at the cost of usability so from a practical standpoint it makes sense that there is some limitations.

Is there some special kind of user on HN that has downvote buttons, or am I the special kind of user on HN that only has upvote buttons?

I'm seeing them right now. It seems to be rate limited based on your karma and how downvote-happy you are.

I thought they disappeared sometimes. I thought it was if you commented in a thread?

You can't downvote replies to your comments.

I feel like downvoting also goes away after a comment has reached an age threshold, although I don't know what that threshold is.

You get down vote permission after some amount of points iirc

You will be able to downvote after your karma goes above 500.

Wahey! Only 10 to go!

14 more, nice.

Every HN user starts without the downvote button. It's only after your own comments get upvoted enough times that the downvote button appears for you (and then you start having to be really careful when aiming for the upvote button, and checking every time that, after clicking the arrow, the link next to the timestamp reads "unvote" and not "undown").

Then you'd be excluding yourself from every platform. We obviously need serious regulation to these massive dystopic tech monopolies.

More or less. But until people are more aware of this, nothing will happen.

> The solution is to stop using platforms that are so actively hostile towards people's freedoms.

So drastic - The actual solution is to use a Safari extension or use another ios browser (Firefox)

Isn't that the same approach?

I ordered my GNU Hurd-powered mobile device right before Christmas, it supposed to ship any day now. /s

Good on you. /s

What about de-googled Android?

was "and-o-rid" unintentional?

Yes, it was a typo

A freudian slip.

I must admit that you made me chuckle, but the truth is that for the last 15 years I've been using Neo FreeRunner, Nokia N900 and then Librem 5 as my phones and couldn't be happier.

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