Is that where this is leading?

... so that it can harvest my personal information better? That official "verified" badge sounds more like an official "stupidity" badge than anything else.

... stating that their systems were not breached but rather it was an issue at an upstream system that they use for email.

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Good, that's a great first step. Now let's talk about Namecheap's apparent lack of due diligence for the vendors it uses. Where did that aspect fail? How will Namecheap rectify this issue with their vendor?

{{{ --- why so much negativism? But the fact is that the user base has a long experience of exactly such changes happening in operating systems and applications, specifically including those coming from Mozilla. --- }

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For me, the changes done by Mozilla and Thunderbird developers do not seem to in response to users' requests, but more for the faddish whims of those developers. If the Thunderbird developers actually cared about what the users want, don't you think they would pay more attention to what the users ask for and problems they document on the Thunderbird support forum?

[[[--- I'd like to give the Thunderbird team the benefit of doubt --- }

I gave them the benefit of doubt with the first API change that destroyed some add-ins I had been using. Then came the second API change. And now it looks like a third. How many times does one need to give them the "benefit of the doubt?"

... seeming to ignore comments posted on the Thunderbird support forum. Yet the developers have come asking me for donations. Now, with this announcement, it is looking like yet another API change that will break even more add-ins, as if the last two API changes didn't break enough things. Thunderbird developers seem to boast about the add-ins, yet they also seem to go out of their way to break them. Honestly, I would not mind donating to Thunderbird, but for now, why support developers who do not listen to users' requests?

... massively from the pandemic era. Peloton® was another. Now that the pandemic is subsiding and people are returning to offices, well, the need for the at-home stuff is subsiding. Tell me, who didn't see this coming?

... I'm more concerned about the browser allowing sites, and the browser itself, to harvest data from me.

... having AI create the content can only be an improvement. :)

... Alexa seems to be losing money but the boatload... Alexa, how did Amazon’s voice assistant rack up a $10bn loss? https://www.theguardian.com/co...

... so that the 2023 TV lineup could be called, "new."

What if that VR headset also gathers private data to reduce its purchase cost?

... than from selling TVs. https://www.flatpanelshd.com/n...

.... will be a lifetime of value for those companies.

No, It was because they were gaming. I did not (and still do not) see a sport aspect to the gaming.

eGaming, yes. But eSports? I just didn't see it.