all hope died the second AI become available and people started using that to create their own, personal, comfortable micro-realities, free of pesky facts and truth.

I’m sure we can get thousands of websites and every major corporation to degoogle cause you said they should.

To avoid a visit by the FBI, I will say no its not.

kinda hard to do when google holds the internet by the balls. and can twist at any moment to get what they want.

Microsoft and Mozilla employees have both accused them of doing this in the past, to sabotage non-chrome browsers on google services, to make chrome look better and drive users to chrome.

Yeah, but the worse they are the longer they live apparently.

because theres no fighting google.

Microsoft tried, and google won, which is why Edge became a chrome reskin instead of what it was before.

Only issue I’ve ever had with Amazon Video was the fact they artificially limit resolution to 320p for people on linux, regardless of browser.

They are all chrome with google scratched out and their name written in sharpie in its place.

Of course they are all doing it, cause they are all the same thing.

Websites that are actively malicious against firefox, that miraculously work when you have a useragent plugin that makes firefox report that its chrome proving that the site works fine, if the asshole code is removed?

I’ve only ever encountered one website where Firefox didnt work.

and that was because the website was coded maliciously to reject firefox… a plugin to make it think firefox was chrome and suddenly it ran fine.

I swear I hate tabbed browsing, because it leads to people hording tabs like a freaking squirrel hordes nuts.

If you need it for later, book mark it.

If you’re done with it close it.

Probably would have succeeded if it was in a japanese court against a Japanese company.

Which I think its why these Japanese companies specifically feel emboldened to do stupid shit like that.

I forgot about the rootkit thing.

And wait, what? suing over watching a youtube video? I never heard about this

Sony was so close to me diving head first into their PC gaming ecosystem, cause there were a lot of games i really wanted to get into, when they pulled the “HAHA SURPRISE, ALL THOSE GAMES YOU’VE ALREADY BOUGHT AND PLAYED? NOW YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PLAYSTATION ACCOUNT FOR THEM BECAUSE WE SAID SO!” and basically guaranteed I’ll never own another playstation product for the rest of my life.

Sure buddy.

I absolutely hate when networking equipment forces you to use an app to set it up, and the app doesn’t do anything that a website couldn’t do.

but the website wouldnt demand 87 permissions and have the ability to silently upload all your contacts and god knows what else to a secret server for advertisement and identification/tracking purposes.

Which is why every company uses apps… even if those apps are just a website wrapped in a app container. because you are the product. not the device you are using.

never thought I’d see the day where someone would say “I saw what happened to all the other stupid devices that did X, so I’m never buying a device that does X”.

But it seems there are people out there who are capable of learning… rare as it may be.

Thats a nice gentle breath across the last dying ember of hope I had.

yep.

I’ve not given Nintendo money for a long ass time, because of their idiotic insistence on choosing the most selfish, customer hating path at every fork in the road they come to.

because myopic little gremlins care more about their instant gratification and newest shinies than anything else.

but don’t worry, once the new wears off, they’ll go back to pointing out the flaws and “hating” the company just like everyone else.

Thats been Nintendo’s modus operandi for at least the past 15 years.