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Yes, that article states that as well under limitations: "Deprecation status: While functional, Apple discourages its direct use in favor of App Sandbox for developers."

Good information, but you can already turn this off via the (quite hidden, I admit) setting that is mentioned in the article. That's a better way to turn this off completely, rather than patch it via a visual rule.

That does not completely turn off the federated sign-in popup you see on the top right in various websites. The solution is actually already mentioned in the article.

For NYC specifically I've been burned many times by Citymapper. It is trying to be clever and parse the messages about service changes, but does it all wrong and in the end gives you wrong directions, leaving you stranded. Sometimes it doesn't show the alerts by MTA at all.

Now that the MTA app is so good and has achieved feature parity with Citymapper, I prefer that for 90% of the time. It doesn't have multi-modal (eg subway + citibike) and doesn't show estimates of uber/lyft prices, but those have not been very useful in my experience.

Citymapper is still ok to quickly check upcoming train or bus departures.

Pretty cool. If you have adguard home and google assistant, you have access to a switch that can enable/disable adguard home protection. So with the homeassistant app you can add that as a quick tile as well. The only caveat is that this will disable it across all devices.

You probably have battery issues because you are using SmartThings as the zigbee hub and it's polling the remote way too much.

I have switched to HomeAssistant with a Zigbee USB adaptor and there are no more battery issues.

SmartThings are aware of the issue but do not care enough to fix it.

DJI used to have the "Mimo" app in the play store. It was rated very low, 2.3 stars. The app required users to allow the permission to read the phone's IMEI. If you denied that permission, the app closed. Myself, and I'm sure plenty of others, have reported this to the play store as something against the play store policies. Perhaps Google gave in to the complaints eventually and told DJI, enough is enough with your crap, who knows... And that made DJI say, "enough is enough with _you_, we're big enough to distribute these outside the play store and keep our invasive tracking and permissions".

Page visible only if you have installed the app in the past: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dji.mimo

I think your perception is incorrect in both counts.

They went bankrupt and saved the app by selling it to Warner and selling IP to Live Nation.

And it doesn't seem like he was aiming for a heartwarming tale, the last message says "we gave it our best shot" and he is disappointed that there is no big, healthy competition.