Every accusation is an admission.

Since it's already in clinical trials for ALS and Parkinson's, hopefully testing for Alzheimer's can be done much more quickly than otherwise would be possible.

Clearly all that's needed is a couple of vats of Ivermectin.

Trump's a malignant narcissist. It's ALWAYS someone else's fault.

Grand Old Pedophiles

Add a big dose of Ivermectin and people Magats will be lining up out the door.

It seems a good part of Mozilla's problems keeping users are actually being caused by Google. Besides the constant incompatibilities introduced by Google there's this:

This is Firefox's CPU utilization when just looking at Google's search page in a private window since Google turned on AI by default. My laptop literally gets too hot to be used on my lap. The exact same search on Chrome takes less than 2% CPU. (Yes, I know about Duckduckgo.)

Recently disabling native AI features in Firefox significantly reduced CPU use, but a couple of days ago it shot up again only when on Google's search page.

The Fox acquisition was the last straw for me too. I've watched Roku go from a user-friendly streaming device to a front end for an advertising company. A couple of years ago it became so irritating it finally pushed me to implement an Adguard Home DNS sinkhole after years of thinking it wasn't worth the trouble. Roku has also made it difficult to block ads, big gaps are shown in the UI when you do, and some apps can't be updated without disabling Adguard and downloading a bunch of Roku's ads too.

Yesterday I bought an Onn streaming box (Android TV) and it's like going from a abacus to a computer. After a couple of hours configuring, loading a new launcher, and using ADB to debloat I've got an ad-free, clean interface with much of Google's tracking disabled (at least as much as possible). Even better, some things (like the remote's volume control) work that never worked with Roku.

It was such a breath of fresh air I just ordered a couple more ($15 for the 2k model right now) and will have completely dumped Roku by the end of the week.

It's been a long time coming.

I'll make sure to give your opinion all the consideration it deserves.

I start with DDG, but it's far from a complete Google replacement.

Move them to a cheap Onn Android TV device. You can configure it with a completely clean interface with no ads at all, and no asshole company's changing the menus constantly once you install an alternate launcher. You can also debloat it like any other Android device and shut off most of the tracking (as much as is possible with Google involved anyway).

I bought my first one yesterday. After configuring it and seeing what a massive improvement it is over Roku I bought a couple more today. 2K ones are on sale for $15 right now.

Not convenience, I am choosing to pay the content creators. Outrageous, I know...

The one I bought can be rooted and I had planned to do so, but found it wasn't needed.

You can use ADB by itself, but this tool makes debloating a breeze. Deleted packages can be easily restored if you make a mistake. ADB needs to be running for it to connect. Be aware the remote is a Bluetooth device so don't make my mistake and turn BT off.

I prefer to pay the content creators for their work.

XDA is the authoritative source for rooting information by a wide margin. I only did a cursory search before realizing root wasn't needed so there's no question the info I found online (on Reddit or somewhere) was wrong.

You're undoubtedly right that enshittification will make its way into this device, but hopefully we'll have a few years before that happens.

They've upped the price I see to $19.88 in the last hour. The nearby stores are now out too. What prices are you seeing?

I was surprised that the masked men weren't law enforcement. Police hiding their faces because fascism is just standard procedure under President Epstein.

Hey, somebody's gotta pay for the highest corporate profits in 70 years.

I wonder how many trillions of dollars the Trump dumpster fire will end up costing American business.

You'd think our corporate overlords would remove him.

The infuriating part of the Google enshittification process is that there is absolutely nothing the user can do about it.

Literally the only thing that motivates Google is profit. Controlling side-loaded apps will almost certainly boost their profits by a infinitesimal fraction of a percent, therefore it will be done. Even if consumer uproar causes Google to back down in the short term, they'll simply implement this a few months later. Late-stage Capitalism sucks.