What happens when it’s no longer profitable enough to make manufacturing film worthwhile? In recent years LOTS of companies have been moving towards focusing strictly on their most profitable items only - dropping things that were still profitable, but not enough to please their major shareholders who only care about profits being as high as they possibly can be.
You have control over it so it’ll soon be just like all the other pre-installed crap that you never use, but still eats up limited storage space.
With the addition, Google isn’t only thinking of users’ well-being, of course.
It’s reacting to increasing regulatory pressure around social media harms and algorithmic dangers. Today, many countries and U.S. states have created laws to restrict or ban minors from using social media, as the impacts of these apps on young people’s mental well-being have become better understood.
Google can now point to a feature like Pause Point to claim it’s part of the solution, not the problem.
Ahhh - there it is.
The thing that is much more concerning to me, tho: if this is pre-installed as a standard part of Android, then it could potentially be abused by work, carriers, governments, malware, etc. to control what you can and can’t easily do.
Please do (even though I personally don’t use those apps). Including imposing more of the incredibly large fines the EU has become known for, and applying the bulk of them towards mental health services & initiatives. It’s long past time those companies were held responsible for what they’ve done to rake in such insane profits.
If you’re relying on AI, well then…
(Yes, I know they can have their uses if done properly, but for too many that’s a HUGE “if”.)
Did you get too close to a 5G tower?
If anyone is still invested in Tesla at this point, they deserve to lose their shi®t.
Now if they’re newly invested, that may be another story entirely. Assuming the battery & solar biz doesn’t get spun off.
Same. So I guess that means we’re done here. See ya around. 😁
Great if you’re in Europe (which I think I’d rather be, but can’t afford to do).
I use a Chromium-based browser (that allows extensions) in desktop mode to access my bank because they deliberately give a crappy experience to mobile users. How do I know this? Because their site used to work just fine in standard Android Chrome up until 2-3 years ago when they “overhauled” their site. Made me refuse to install their app even harder.
Sadly, this seems to make up the vast majority of people.
Yeah, they don’t like anything that sucks more than they do.
So, I assume you’re a guy (or at least have those “parts”) since you’re smacking two heads…
I kinda agree & kinda don’t. I think the problem is OP should have said “you must be significantly more open to changing your opinion.” You still need to validate everything you can before doing so.
Didn’t think I needed to specify “CyanogenMod for Android” since that was the topic at hand. Never mind that three years added to 17 years is a 17.6% increase - that’s a bit more than “just a rounding error.”
20 years ago Android phones didn’t exist, let alone CyanogenMod.
Ask for another airplane if you see William Shatner (the original Captain Kirk), or John Lithgow in the window seat.
At this point, it feels like there’s very little left that isn’t malicious.
You should be afraid of it. If your work PC gets infected with it, you could lose your job when all your work files get replaced with hentai.
If they can get people to buy it, they’ll sell anything.
If I knew about that beforehand, I’d probably be much less likely turn it on to begin with. If I learned the hard way, I’d likely be dissuaded from ever trying it again & just get one of those other apps. Conversely, the fact that my current phone boots much faster than older ones did makes it not really as off-putting an issue at it once was. It sounds like a major PITA until you realize that.