All things considered it seems they got a pretty good deal out of it

They are not forcing anything. Nobody has to opt in.

This is exactly what they did with .webp

So basically they’re using their monopoly to force through changes in internet standards? Sounds like the EU will be paying a visit soon.

It’s all about ads/ad money/data, it’s heavily bleeding into a single issue. It’s not like some giant manufacturing company doing shady things with their cars and air conditioners, all the subsidiaries are interlinked. You could say WEI is just a Chrome thing, Google is just their search engine, AdWords is just an ad service etc, but they’re all part of the data to ads to sales pipeline.

There’s no overarching anti-trust conversation to be had because there’s currently no anti-trust cases, if there ever will be. The comments under each individual instance of it being required is the “big conversation”. As a content aggregation site (mainly news) the only place it could realistically occur is under some wishful thinking self-post nobody would care about.

I also saw people pine for trust busting just the other day under some Amazon article, there’s simply nowhere else to post about it at the moment.

Wonder how many international and domestic workers they’ve contract rugpulled, since this will probably be the one that flies under the radar due to all the other issues.

Fediverse about to be eating good

UK & EU loves this stuff though, so they won’t mandate you have to use a single phone app for everything, but they will slowly remove your ability to do anything without your phone. You’ll just end up with a shittier version of China’s system with a billion shitty apps.

inxi

In the terminal should do it

Probably search files/run in the start menu, then type dxdiag

That’s what it normally is on Windows, I can’t remember the Linux command

They’re Chinese. They’re from the Republic of China.

If you have to give up your phone number to register why would you get Signal over Telegram? All the people you aren’t supposed to talk to are on Telegram and not Signal, so if you’re giving up your phone number, why pick Signal? Because it’s FOSS? What’s the difference in outcome? Both end in a phone number request from the government that the service will comply with.