Going full mask off?

It’s obvious that bullseye in this case doesn’t mean “we should shoot him”.

A secret service sniper responding to the shots?…

Huh? I mean, sure… kinda. But there is a major difference between “I’m sorry that happened” or “I’m sorry we did all we could” and “I’m sorry I shot your son, ate his face, and then mutilated the corpse.”

Context matters, and putting “sorry” in a sentence doesn’t magically make the sentence not an admission.

Advertising? This thing is essentially a theater. Yeah, it can run advertisement but anything with a screen can do that. It’s like saying a movie theatre is for advertising.

If only every doctor could diagnose from a short video. 🙄

Neither of those had anything to do with the laptop.

The laptop which was claimed to be chock full of crimes and child porn? Where exactly are those charges?

Free to access != free to redistribute

You really don’t see a difference between a single user citing wiki, vs a billion dollar company going to great lengths to squeeze every cent they can out of everyone involved when looking up information?

The same reason we don’t let companies sell photocopies of books? This isn’t a take on piracy, to be clear. This is a take on one company stealing content from another, and serving it up as if it were their own. And when Google has a monopoly on search, that fucks over everyone but Google, including you.

Those kinds of things are what people often take issue with Google about. Well, the second one anyway. The first is arguably not a search and is instead a calculation, but I admit that’s a little semantical.

The first however, is Google taking information provided by third parties, and presenting it to the user. It prevents traffic from flowing through to the original site, and is something actively complained about.

Wingdings is a font so… it already is.

Want? You seem to be confused. If I had a choice between a cold soggy grilled cheese and Trump, I’d take the grilled cheese.

Too bad this effects people who didn’t vote for it, and/or couldn’t vote, just the same.

I highly doubt they have one team that switches between experiments and bug fixes, never doing two things at once. Not to mention that something ultimately being ripped out isn’t necessarily wasted effort. They could likely easily pivot virtually anything they put into this specific experiment into any number of other uses.

If they stopped on their own accord, why would they start again because a new law was passed which didn’t restrict them any more than they were previously?

You’re claiming it granted them a right they already had, and were already exercising? I don’t think that’s how that works.

Depends on the site being used. Google? Most likely. But I’ve used dozens of others without any issues.

Such as?

You assume there is no other use for the VPN? And honestly, you can get a free trial of a VPN if you want to, to handle this, it doesn’t need a yearly re-up or anything, just when your card expires.