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If you’re using a custom de-googled rom you don’t have the play store, so this would just gut that functionality :/ same for any other app that decides they need this, which if the past is anything to go on is going to be a ton of apps that really don’t need it

Well that fucking sucks

Gotcha, I can see why you’d be more into anarchy then. Congrats on S+6 ☺️

I was literally just about so say same for splatoon, I just hit my highest elo ever and I’m really proud of myself 🥺

Do you play much x rank? I’m surprised to see someone refrencing their anarchy rank as opposed to x power

I assume you’re not, but you aren’t logged in are you?

Otherwise I’d say fingerprinting or identifying your machine like another commenter suggested

I made an HTML page once in elementary school for an elective, and I also don’t get it :)

I just wanna be a part of the conversation lol. But also what the fuck even is this meme 😅

Fair honestly, I’m more or less in the same boat 😅

That is a pretty excellent image

Allowing a country’s political party to position their industry in a monopolistic way is a bad idea. When one group controls an industry they much more easily exploit their consumers. Encouraging folks to buy ev’s in general is different from undercutting prices to create a dominant position in the market that can be exploited once you have no meaningful competitors

That being said, we all know thats not why they’re doing it, they’re doing it to protect the interests of US auto makers, which also sucks

Dude that sounds rad! Thanks for mentioning them and explaining what they are, I’ll have to check that out!

What is radio free fedi?

I love him.

I don’t think something like duckduckgo is gonna be the eventual contender to take on google. I think it’ll have to be an engine with its own index or some kind of lateral solution.

Something like brave, kagi, qwant, or stract could maybe turn into something exciting with more momentum, but honestly I have a hard time seeing them be the kind of scrappy competitor with a new approach that unseats the old king who has lost their way in pursuit of more profit at the expense of product quality. None of them seem like they truly have a new approach, but only time will tell how that story plays out this time.

I think it takes a while for that kind of competitor to emerge and gain enough traction to become a genuine alternative option. The primary option everyone long since adopted kinda has to suck for a while :/

Dude thats dope!

Not the person you replied to- you could consider adding a correction or [sic] or something while still including the original headline unedited

Hope you have a good day :)

Thats honestly kinda heartbreaking. Thanks for sharing your experience and perspective, I enjoyed reading it

Fair enough, I’m sorry for making assumptions about you.

I do think my points stand though

Gotcha. Yeah thats more or less how I remembered it… 🙃

Its a bummer, I used to consider myself a fan of Google’s direction. But lesson learned I suppose, money is power and power corrupts.

If I’m not mistaken there’s a more long winded watered down version at the end of a bunch of bs now. I may be misremembering or out of the loop on subsequent updates and changes though