Google and Microsoft didn't "kill" the decentralised e-mail of yesteryear. They beat it fair and square

Sure, they might've cornered the market fair and square, but they're certainly doing anticompetitive things in keeping it cornered.

Just try setting up a mail server not connected to any of the big corpos (Google, MS, Cloudflare or their clients with more niche marketing) and see who will actually recieve your mails. You most likely won't land into the Spam folder either.

Still, Steam probably has some clause in their developer agreement where they say that's not on them.

It's less stupud to listen to Taylor Swift than it is to Ben Shapiro.

Choose who you listen to wisely. And no, her being a singer has little influence on that decision.

Yes. Yes it did.

No, they did not report that in media.

Canonically hell is a democracy and heaven an absolute monarchy, so the art kind of checks out.

Which clearly gives them a carte blanche to genocide and apartheid

You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.

Unfortunately it's a bigger problem.

Google doesn't plan to block uBlock Origin itself, but the APIs it uses to integrate into Chrome in order to function. This will effectively disable all adblockers on Chrome. uBlock won't be removed from the Chrome extension store, it will just have 90% of its functionality removed.

Additionally, this isn't a Chrome-only change, but a change in the open source Chromium, an upstream browser of Chrome all other Chrome-based browsers use (essentially everything aside from Firefox and Safari themselves).

The change itself is involved in changing the browser's "Manifest", a list of allowed API calls for extensions. The current one is called Manifest v2 and the new one was dubbed Manifest v3.

Theorethically Chromium-based browsers could "backport" Manifest v2 due to the open source nature of Chromium. However that is unlikely as it's projected to take a lot of resources to change, due mostly to security implications of the change.

Vendors of other Chromium-based browsers themselves have little to gain from making the change aside from name recognition for "allowing uBlock", which most users either wouldn't care for or already use Firefox, so the loss for Google isn't projected to be large, just as the gains for other vendors.

TLDR: uBlock won't be removed from the Chrome extension store, but the mechanisms through which it blocks ads will be blocked. The block isn't a change in Chrome but in Chromium and affects all Chromium-based brosers (all except Firefox and Safari). Other vendors could change that to allow adblockers but it's projected to take a lot of time and resources.

The nicest part is that according to my (admittedly very limited) knowledge of ancient greek, you'd read Οώθ as "Oof"

They aren't meant for public roads, just like Teslas.

Psychologist should get publically shamed to hell and back. Even if Poland doesn't have client confidentiality (and that's a big if), she still has basic ethics of her profession to uphold. Hope the courts of Poland throw this one out.

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