I don't see why it's bizarre. Apple worked hard on getting their devices into people's hands and created an ecosystem to keep people buying their devices again in the future.
Besides, it's no different from any other countries dependancy on other messaging applications, like WhatsApp!
Indeed. A shirt and trousers is absolutely lovely attire for sitting in a room that's 30°C. No thanks.
As a kid, I remember when the schools used to have that paper that literally was paper and on one side being shiny. Shit used to literally smear on the shiny side. I don't think it actually exists anymore.
An American
This works but has a number of downsides.
Eg hackers just have to remove the +portion to have your email address. You also can't send emails out via any of those addresses.
That's always been my argument. Updates for the OS or even apps in Google Play should be presented immediately if the user is doing a manual check for updates. Sure, continue the staged rollouts, but only for those who are updating automatically.
The check for updates button has been working fine for a few years now but as of this month my Pixel 8 is still on the November patch. My wife's Pixel 6 is on the December patch after I did a manual check on her phone. Frustrating.
Invest some time in transferring to a new email address but also an email alias service. That way you never give out your new email address to anyone and give each site/service you use its own alias.
If they do that people won't turn it on. They rely on people to not read things.
I wish someone (EU) would step in and force companies to make data collection settings be opt in rather than opt out.
I 'watched' it on YouTube after it had finished. Thankfully so as I ended up skipping though the majority of it. It felt like one big advert with content in certain places where they had room between trailers.
Samsung loves bloat. Their attempt at creating an ecosystem and therefore lock in to keep using their devices. I like Samsung hardware but their software is shit.
Not that I know of
They no longer appear for me. The biggest change for me was just using uBlock Origin. Previously I also had Ghostery. If you run multiple extensions for privacy, try dropping them and only using uBlock.