They're the only way I'd click on twitter links shared by other people. If they're gone, so is my occasional connection with that (mostly) cesspool of a site.

Earlier this summer, the company rolled out a new feature called “Talk to Spotify,” allowing Premium users to interact with the platform more conversationally via a chatbot interface.

“I feel like Spotify is coming alive, and you can literally start talking to it,” Söderström said.

The level of delusion is phenomenal.

Unfortunately the Android experience is getting more and more bloated and users' freedom to tinker with their phones or sideload apps is getting more and more difficult. The Play Store is riddled with more ads than useful content. Just try searching for something, and oftentimes more than half of your screen is ads.

I've been with Android since the start and I hate what Google is reducing it to. It pains me that the only viable alternative is Apple and I feel trapped.

This is how you do it, rest of the EU countries. Or you're complicit.

They're ok with their ads harming society, democracy, human rights and civil liberties. But they're removing ads that might give their victims the means to fight for the harm they caused them.

Such a waste of R&D resources

This is a huge threat and we owe it to ourselves to defend against this sort of meddling. Look at the results of similar campaigns that pushed Brexit and Trump's candidacy.

Easy choice.

This sort of blackmail term change is despicable.

The kind of article you'd expect to read about dictatorships cut off from the rest of the world. This sort of talk sounds crazy even with North Korea's standards.

We need a viable alternative to Android. Google has clearly shown that it's a terrible steward for anything under its wing. Even if they somehow backtrack, they will continue pushing anti consumer practices in the long term. It's been a couple of years now that I can't install an apk that is unavailable in my country, because they're somehow verifying my country with Google Play services. I've managed to ditch Chrome this year after 16 years and I'm not looking back, I wish I had done this earlier. If only there was an open Android alternative I could jump to.

A Google spokesperson said the judgement "fails to recognise" the firm's "significant investment to ensure Android remains open, interoperable and free".

Except for all the anti-consumer initiatives in the name of security .

Every single party involved in this headline is so utterly untrustworthy that I don't know what to do with it.

WhatsApp was the best messaging app out there. Clean, fast, intuitive UI. No bloat. And then Facebook bought it and shat all over it. Now it looks like their crappy Messenger app. Time to go.

I thought I was reading The Onion, and still think I am.

I'm all for Disney getting the cancellations they deserve, but articles like this one are entirely sensationalist. No one can know the real numbers of cancellations unless Disney announces them, which will never happen.

This is the best depiction of Cheeto I've ever read.

This is the opposite of what the EU stands for and is largely due to US actors lobbying. As a EU citizen, this is the first time I'm very afraid about the direction we're heading towards.

Chrome messing with my uBlock Origin extension, disabling it and uninstalling it when all this started, was the last straw. I promptly made the jump to Floorp/Firefox and even though I was scared for a long time to switch, it was all good and have zero regrets. I'm very happy I ditched Chrome.

Is "paying back" really the issue here? Or should it be the dissonant stance of Europe where we're still cozy with a genocidal, out of control aggresor who's destroyed the progress we funded?

I'm drowing in a sea of irony here. I live for the day these two thugs are behind bars.