AI startup Perplexity has offered Google $34.5 billion to buy the Chrome browser. The price might be below evaluation, but the company may be forced to sell the browser at the request of U.S. authorities as part of a case in which it was found guilty of being a monopoly.

https://x.com/80Level/status/1955488788861555082

Might as well be wanting all that juicy personal information from which to mine not only for profit but also for sending a SWAT team through the door without a court order and a search warrant. Or, sending a Hellfire missile through a window of a house somewhere in Pakistan.

Damn sure was clickbaity. No ads? Buy YT Premium they say.

Whoopee. Saved you a click.

I stopped using ABP years ago and switched to uBlock Origin. That and some *Monkey scripts.

Easy for them, but not everyone else. I’m saying this as someone who’s into PCs, used both OS, fixing them for a very long time, and seen a lot different kinds of userbases – some who don’t have formal PC use training. That in my part of the world, while Android is pretty prevalent for smartphones and gaming on them, pirated Windows is still being used for PCs because it’s so familiar for a lot of people, it’s almost the default, but for how long that’s gonna last as Windows is being made more like locked with DRMs and shit like that.

“Install Linux, Problem Solved.”

Seriously, I’d like to see Linux made better so much non-technical people can use it without any further technical assistance, most notably, computer games that are normally functional and easy to install under Windows.

America needs to improve our educational system

What also infuriates me is some of the supposedly educated people are also for that garbage regime, either blindly supporting it for confirming their fascist beliefs, or because they see it as an opportunity to make money from misery.

That includes the techbros. And CEOs of MLMs.

Fucking cunt bastard and his brain worms. Absolutely nothing redeeming.

Because some are artisans and see that their work is being pillaged for AI “training”.

Seethe hard Santis.

I refuse ever touching an AI-driven app or feature, having seen too much slop.

I’d rather call myself a rejectionist than something called fancy.

Javlar!

Embrace? With so many devs constantly being laid off, how about NO?

Simplewall allows direct control of internet access of any program and app; you can block CoPilot from accessing the internet.

Sounds like an arrangement that happens in the developing world, where landowners and businessmen are down with police chiefs at weekend drinking binges and sports betting.

How it used to be old GSM phones like those from Nokia that were then the thing for the underworld.

Stuff like medical record portals, financial websites for my companies retirement plan. Stuff I have little choice about. And most fail silently.

I recall how South Korea literally painted itself into a corner for becoming too dependent on Internet Explorer after years of using it with a security implementation based entirely on ActiveX.

I’m currently using a user-agent switcher plugin. Allows me to spoof servers into believing I’m running a different browser.