it's hard to get invested into anything google when they've been non stop killing products or making them worse for over a decade.

Certainly not the only one making things worse. Software has become an enemy of the people in the last 10 years. Remember when the internet was nominated for Nobel Peace price?

if the uk wants to be a authoritarian state then do it properly and not this grey area of "you're passively sending packets so you're fined a billion dollars so you block us"

it's worse than china's firewall

How many other laws can I passively break in other countries I have no connection to?

As many as you like, as long as you never travel to that country. Or that country has an extradition treaty with yours.

being privacy centric is a badge of honor these days, so if they aren't making it clear or not giving an easy to find option, then it's a guaranteed to your queries and outputs are used for training.

Funny, until now I assumed the "buffering" was just something shoddy with the google infrastructure. Youtube has a reputation for pushing buggy/undesirable changes and already has slow javascript widgets on it so at this point I expect it and "just deal with it". It didn't even occur to me they were trying to poison the well with regards to adblockers.

im sure that's for antitrust reasons.

because the most popular extension would be an adblocker

it's arguably harder to make an extension system when you can't write your own broswer and you'd have no way to distribute them either because the platform dictator doesn't allow it

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios

It's real bold of google to double down on these bad faith changes while also trying to get me invested in their AI offerings at the same time.

the last few years focused on short term conversion metrics for bing and edge have already done their damage, its going to be an uphill battle for them

its pretty much peaked at this point. works with every game i've ever tried, new and old titles.

I don’t know. I tried NFS Undercover on my gtx 1650 laptop with highest settings - it couldn’t do it, lags to the point of totally unplayable. On windows it works perfectly fine. Why is that? Can somebody explain?

Unless it requires a kernel level anti cheat. I don't play those games but if someone does, it's a thing they should know.

Kernel-level anti-cheat is egregious. It's a good thing that it doesn't actually run on Linux. Nobody should be installing that garbage on their computers.

helldivers 2 has one and it still works. afaik the anti cheat developer has to explicitly disallow linux users, and at that point its not really a linux issue anymore (but still good to know)