Navigation is horribly broken now, and does not play nice with Nova Launcher. It was really nice before, so easy to flip between apps. Anything they added is not worth this broken UI. Ironic because I *just* bought a Pixel 3a because I wanted prompt updates for Android. If all they're going to do is keep making it worse and worse, I'll pass.

When you ask manufacturers what they think people want they say "Thinner phones!" (thus justifying non-replaceable batteries and no headphone jacks).

When you ask consumers what they really want they say "Longer battery life. We don't care how thin it is"

And I guarantee you no one ever pleaded with a manufacturer to take away their headphone jack.

I find the newer phones to be less and less attractive. If I'm going to wait for that situation to improve it might be a long wait.
(And don't get me started on how Android keeps getting worse and worse.)

In situ they are filled with shit.

Are we saying that plants evolved the production of nitrates to make us die of cancer 50 years after eating it? That doesn't sound like a particularly effective defense.

Fruit is delicious food with seeds inside specifically intended by the plant to be eaten and distribute the seeds (hopefully inside manure). How could you possibly conclude it doesn't want to be eaten?

My robots.txt tells them to fuck off but they keep coming back. I reply with 403 Forbidden.

I block 66.102.7.*. If I see more I add it to list.

You could have a reader app that went around to all your friends blogs, pulled data, and let you view a unified stream (like Facebook). You might want the blogs to use a standardized API for delivering that, but it doesn't seem too hard. The "normal" web page could just have what you want to be public (and the scrapers could only see that). With authorization through the API, identifying you as a friend, it could deliver more. You could even post content limited to selected people. It could be nice.

I think it would be harder to turn this into profits. Even if evil Faceboogle scraped it, if they aren't serving the ads, what good is it?

Just keep hitting reload until it comes up. Hitting it every few seconds should teach that server a lesson.

Nice to know, but just to be safe you can always block the spider's IP address.

They wouldn't harvest my clicks.

I would think having more time off might translate into more time to shop. Good for the economy (not that I'm in favor of consumerism).

They specifically said 32 hour week.

OK, fine. You are using a device based on Linux.