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Amazon shutting down its Android Appstore highlights how hard it is for alternative app stores to compete with giants like Google and Apple. Despite over a decade in the market.

This raises an important question: Can any new app store realistically challenge the dominance of Google Play and the App Store? If even a tech giant like Amazon couldn’t make it work, what hope is there for smaller competitors?


Reverse engineering old games is like digital archaeology—except instead of digging up fossils, you’re unearthing spaghetti code and DRM nightmares. Spice86 seems like an exciting new shovel for the job!


Thank you my friend!


So AdBlock plus now sells advertisements.

I have no problem watching ads on legitimate sites and generally I'm avoiding sites with many ads even if the content is legit.

I understand that some ads must exist for good known reasons, but the way that adblock tries to monetize the whole thing, is something I don't like.


Materialistic is what I use and I'm very satisfied with the app, the lack of a downvote button is an issue but I can live with out it. Good job Hidro!


Thanks for sharing the link for rclone.org I'll give it a try asap!


Google drive for everything important, dropbox for random stuff.


> Looking for some good blogs and website to follow to keep myself updated with recent news in internet privacy and internet freedom.

https://www.privacyrights.org and https://www.epic.org you'll find many informations in both sites.

Two blogs I follow are https://paulbernal.wordpress.com and http://theprivacyblog.com


I think it has to do with the user's karma, a post from a user with heavy karma ranks higher, if you noticed there is another post ranked 8th from a user with 20000+ karma and only 5 votes.


Karma doesn't affect story ranking.


My apologies, I thought post ranking has to do with karma.


Thanks. Yeah that checks out.


As for the reason, it's normally trying to get money out of them, or just to take a website offline for a while (e.g. the DDoS is from a competitor).

Exactly!


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