... towards a mandatory subscription model?

Don't people use VPNs to get away from google's spying?

If the customers benefit, why weren't they asked about this new privacy-busting policy?

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

... why do FitBit users seem to think that google's purpose in acquiring FitBit apparently was not to steamroll over them and then exploit them and their data for all they are worth?

... or having to load up all those slow-loading ads?

> Maybe they are confused by the fact that Bing is a search engine, not a browser?

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Good catch. I meant to say... "I am not interested in having Bing as my primary search engine." Thanks for the correction.

... why does Microsoft seem to have the need to frequently try to push Bing on me, when I've told Microsoft many times (oh so many times) that I am not interested in having Bing as my primary browser? Is Microsoft tacitly admitting that Bing is really not up to par?

The sports and broadcast fees that are outside the terms of my contract have risen from $6 per month to $30 per month over the contract length. I cannot cancel the contract without a significant penalty, so I am stuck paying the fees (quite the racket the cable company has there). When my contract expires in a couple months, it's bye-bye to the cable company for me. I'm switching to a different ISP and will be streaming.

Yet another attempt by Microsoft to be relevant on smartphones so that Microsoft can harvest data.... Will it work?

/. should not allow article behind paywalls. I cannot read the article, so how can I validly comment?

Or a move away from each reactor being different? Why does each and every nuclear reactor need to be different, complicating the efforts to determine the risks of all those various designs. Oh wait, I think I just answered my own question.

... where designers seem to want things to "look cool" with little regard for keeping those things useful. So many websites have gone over to low-contrast colors and lightweight fonts. Why? Well, the designers had to come up with something different to justify their existence. It doesn't matter if the new thing is less useful, the designers did something and that is all that seems to matter.

Google search is getting worse and worse....

... for their own shortcomings. "made possible by the vehicles lacking a basic anti-theft technology virtually every other car has"