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.

its sad to be living in a country where the kindness of strangers is the basis for your personal health care. Donations from the public should never be needed to finance health care for kids.

So 2 things: First, we’ll NEVER get to 100% because they’ll change the guidelines before that happens. Second, I wouldn’t doubt the guidelines are already over inflated by big pharma just to sell more weight loss drugs. Our food supply is killing us. Wonder what the rate is in Europe?

Totally agree. Not less calls, just less reporting. The kids today don’t ever answer phone calls, so nothing to report. One day, I hope we have a government that represents we the people, instead of we the big business.

don’t use threads, and won’t ever for sure. These people just don’t get it. Everyone is SICK of data tracking and ads.

Agreed. I have little doubt the watermarking sends all available data if can get its hands on back to Google. Google is Evil.

As with a lot of technology, the iPhone has reached a plateau. There is countless versions of software that are the same, mostly making improvements that hold little to no value to end users. Just as one “bought” music before the advance of streaming services, we now have to “subscribe” endlessly to listen to music or watch movies. Why allow anyone to buy anything once, if you can get them to subscribe to something forever to enjoy it? Guessing one can do this already with hardware, but i’m sure we’ll be forced to rent our hardware in the not to distant future as well.

I’d love to know how much of cyber attack targets are Windows, vs any other computer platform. Granted it can happen to anyone, but if Windows is the source of most hacking events, shouldn’t that tell everyone something ? ?

“...can uninstall any part of Essentials or the whole thing.” Guessing this “uninstall” only gets ride of the front end, and lots of code used to siphon up your data which Google will sell actually remains. A clean install seems like a great idea.