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   🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 02:38:41 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

   RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116227754682390432

   But also, some, like Apple’s family mechanism, can be quite helpful in non-pathological situations.
   Mint falling to standard marketing capture tactics was inevitable when they sold out to the Big Pink T.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 02:38:40 JST Rich Felker

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     @grumpybozo What's good about Apple's?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 03:10:58 JST Rich Felker

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     @grumpybozo Yeah, they sound like handcuffs to me. They might be a little better than some other companies do, but any implementation of this that doesn't want to be an abuse vector needs to think adversarially of all the ways someone could use it to do harm and ensure they're mitigated. Not just say "hey, if it's convenient to people in good situations, it's fine".

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     🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 03:10:59 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias Shared access to purchased items, convenient mechanism for authorization control for things like location and sharing. Members can opt out freely. Each associated cost is tied to whichever member made the purchase.

     And yes, those features are golden handcuffs in a problematic family. They’re just conveniences in the many cases where people are happy and eager to remain entangled.