While I've refused to install the FB app on my phone, instead using a mobile browser to access FB, they have degraded that experience so much it's almost pointless to even bother anymore. And this "degrading" is across all the mobile browsers I've tried. I'm way past ready for FB to be killed off by over saturation of internet crap they keep piling on that I have no interest in.

He's right because the internet has already been destroyed.

so just wondering why Meta would fund a study to reach this conclusion, except they don't want to have to move their entire platform up a few notches so they don't look back on bigger TV's. NOT saying there is no truth the report, but ANYTHING Meta is involved in is, in my opinion, very questionable. Far too much money involved to be completely objective. I have a 4K TV at home and I'm pretty sure the difference between standard Blu-Ray and 4K is easy for me to see.

I have ZERO interest in watching shit TV, which most of what YouTube is... just don't care. They suffer from the same thing cable does, and more. 5,434,565,346.9 channels, and still not much to watch. I did subscribe for a short period, but trying to watch the local broadcast channels looked just awful. Most people may not notice.... but I couldn't cancel fast enough based on the quality of those channels. Now I have an antenna for that. looks MUCH better than YouTube.

Agreed. The problem is GM doesn't get any subscription fees from this arrangement. They want money. MORE money. Sure, you may still be able to BlueTooth to your phone for calls, but I doubt much else will be available. GM will make you subscribe to their GPS system(which, of course, only to sell your data to the highest bidder in addition to collecting a monthly fee from you). This is just Greed, pure and simple. I have a connected Nissian, and stopped paying for it because it didn't really offer much. The ONE THING that might have been useful was remote start. But for the time it takes to open the app on my phone, get authenticated, find the remote start button, have my phone send the signal to Nissian, and then to my car.... well by then, I had already made my way from whatever business I was at all the way to my car. For me, it was a waste. My wirelessApple's CarPlay does everything I want it to do. Money... you just can't own anything anymore. Everything comes with subscriptions.

And no doubt Adobe will use everything you do for AI purposes. They will make money, you won't get a penny.

can't afford to raise children.... tomorrow's outlook is bleak at best, at least IMHO.

Agreed. And they keep forgetting that internet access is most likely going to fall under a host of censorship rules before too long meaning all your data in cloud storage is going to come under scrutiny.. AND, that's if we even have internet access to begin with. I've never been a "Cloud" person... it just gives others way to monetize my data. Google? Can't want to piss on your grave.

So is anyone really surprised? I mean with the ongoing push to make poor people more poor, this is hardly news.

and of course the business model is buy everything establish a monopoly, sit back and collect the money, and don't really provide any useful service, much less any customer service. I have fiber from a small company and am very happy with it... but fear the day when ATT gobbles them up. And while the cable provider in the area was good, they too have been bought up by Cox.... another company that doesn't fix anything.

Ditto. all so they can sell more expensive ads? Tell you what.... you give me 50% of the money you make on me and I'll install and use your browser.... maybe.

There is no "race with China'. If there is any kind of global conflict, China will eat the USA for lunch. While we've invested in making billionaires, China has invested in infrastructure.

What he forgot to mention is Trump fully expects to control ALL of the content. In the end, this will end up being a right wing nut job echo chamber, on that the US pays for and Trump reels in profits from.

yep. and can you tell me has Meta ever produced anything “great”?

and, of course, don’t discount or dismiss blatant disregard for ongoing maintenance in order to put more money in someone’s pocket.