Speaking of Google being proactive, they proactively started charging me MORE for Gemini use even though I have it disabled on my account.

I don't want to use this and I don't want to pay for it. Fuck you, Google.

Expecting unpaid people to design it well or fix it for free. ;)

One of the reasons Prime Video Ads hastened my departure from Amazon Prime is that I was having an issue with them ... finding my apartment. I live in a pre-WW2 building and for reasons I still cannot figure out they can get their packages here but not groceries. It is not fun scooping up a bunch of bags of groceries from in front of the wrong apartment and lugging them all the way up to mine. Unfortunately for Amazon a broken foot enflamed it into a big issue.

What's that have to do with ads on Prime? I'm generally okay with paying for ad-free service, and normally I would have with Prime. But imagine a scenario where I'm like "oh.. they made it a hassle to accept the grocery order, but I really love the Boyz, sigh I'll just put up with it..." In short if I were to go that route I'd just be giving them leverage to tolerate shittier service.

I think your prediction is correct, I just hope others will start noticing the problem this sort of thing can cause when bundling is introduced. It's difficult to do these days but I don't have one vendor providing multiple services* anymore in my house.

* Examples: I used to have Spectrum for TV and Internet, one got me a discount on the other. I used to have AT&T for mobile and DirecTV, owned by AT&T for TV. T-Mobile for cellular and they also provided a Netflix account, etc.

Go WoKe gO BrOkE

I'm a little surprised we don't have "AI-powered ad-blockers" right now.

"...everybody's a pedo."

whatever.

I need the visibility and it's unreasonable of me to expect any service to exist in perpetuity, let alone maintain it's startup fantasies of being able to sleep at night.

Lack of centralization isn't the biggest factor, and gatekeeping about it anonymously on a Friday Night ain't impressing anybody you might care to.

Huh. According to that link they killed WordPad to sell Word.

Question- wouldn't bringing WordPad back be a lot cheaper for MS than fucking up Notepad?

I stopped sharing my artwork on IG when Facebook decided to start spamming my feed with posts from various groups intended to be hostile towards LGBT*. I'm on BlueSky now and have no interest in looking back, even if they did make it easier to post.

Try it with an emoji.

Umm... ALL Microsoft needed to do was fix the wonky word-wrap. Did they forget about WordPad?

The people who voted for this bullshit to be vocal in their disapproval.

New? You don't remember him announcing that a group of immigrants was eating people's cats?

Why aren't boarding gates USB-C...?

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"live long and prosper"