These were mass registrations by bots that were not used, disabled years ago. I see none of the privacy reasons, legitimate private email would not get into them any more than what already happens accidentally with people mistyping the intended recipient. This is a non issue, definitely not worth a post here. Even on reddit the top comment is release them, but as they are valuable ones (the bots got tons of "nice" ones), release them to paid users - which sounds fair to me...

Itâ(TM)s definitely about the law requiring pricing to show the final price. I get it that tax rates are variable based on locality in the US, even within a state or a city. Thereâ(TM)s much less variability here in the UK (VAT is the same rate everywhere and only varies if certain goods are deemed worthy of a discount). No reason why taxed and tax free prices canâ(TM)t both be shown in the US. This is also common in some places here, especially where businesses will be buying items with a VAT exemption.

I'm not sure if Wire has new management but I just recently learned they've gone fully open source, are working on federation, and are using an RFC-specified tree-based efficient group chat encryption algorithm. RCS is eventually meant to adopt the same algorithm.

Folks using Telegram Groups (which are unencrypted, actually) might have a look. Yeah, somebody needs to run a server if you don't want intelligence agencies to provide one for you.

I uninstalled Wire years ago when they wouldn't take privacy seriously (yeah, I filed a bug) but it seems like a second look is warranted.

You won't need anything less than 50 cents anyway.

Paper notes could be changed to coins too. It would make it less convenient for robbers.

The only time I come in contact with Edge is in my Windows VMs or remote servers and I want to download something directly in to the VM on to the server, or I accidentally click on some Microsoft crap that opens the default browser. My annoyances:

• * It eventually forgets what my open tabs were from the last session. It does this frequently. I have tabs in Safari I've had open for for years, and that's the way I like. You fail Microsoft.
• * Configuring Edge is a headache. Default choices are shit and changing that involves going through too many steps.
• * Whatever the browser core, for decades now, Microsoft defaults to a busy noisy page. Their product manager must have been introduced to browsers in the late '90s when everybody had to have a portal. Most of my Windows access is to remote servers, so the last thing I want is it opening an animated page that kills the performance of the remote connection. Sure, it's not as bad as it was 20 years ago when latency was higher and bandwidth was lower, but still annoys the shit of me. Just give me a minimal page by default.
• * It's not even an independent product anymore. Using it means supporting Google. No thanks.

They couldn't make their browser successful when they developed it in-house. They had to make and cuts opted to wrap somebody else's browser, and even now, that can't make that successful.

Yeah, no doubt. But for all the good they do me, right?

The Amazon Fire Max 11 with the Amazon Fire Toolbox mod is just about perfect.

It's fast, has big and bright screen, super long battery life, and is compatible with the Google Play Store.

...to get my security-conscious workplace to allow use of Edge for browsing sites outside our own Intranet.
That's the kind of tacit endorsement I'd need to see before even considering it for personal use.

The bad thing with Edge is that on every new machine I'll have to spend time to answer a huge number of questions and waste time to ensure that the next time I start the browser get a blank page as start page.

One simple thing that M$ can do is to stop with all the crap questions they ask for every first start of Edge and at the end throw up MSN.

All I want is a blank browser screen without a lot of crap that just creates information overload.

You mean getting the government to own the means of production isn't Communist?

I use Bing, and I get Microsoft Rewards points for that. Each month, the points I earn are automatically donated to the Wikimedia Foundation. Just sayin'.