oh I was never really desiring 3D pokémon in the first place so I suppose that coincides with my misunderstanding

Cassette Beasts? TemTem? Digimon? Saying no attempts to fill it were made is disgenuine

Men will blame anything else for their problems before ever admitting that toxic masculinity might be the cause of their problems

Meanwhile if you’re an ad-blocking app…

Sees link “Fungiverse”

Oh god help

Why the fuck would I ever want AI in my calculators? Even Algebra never required AI in the past

Everything overtakes Teslas. Big deal

I said affiliated. Pedro Sanchéz is well known to be highly buddy buddy with Xi Jinping

The political group (Nowadays a composite group) Elpais gets their money from has been overall intensely pro CCP in their approach. I hope this clears up what I mean.

I decided to do some digging into Elpais and turns out your hunch is VERY warranted. They receive a majority of their funding from China affiliated and Pro-China political groups.

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…the problem is that I wanna get rid of Google services lol.

Yeah that was exactly the issue. When I wanna “Degoogle” I mean not just the browser, I mean step out of the entire ecosystem

That’s exactly the issue I mean. I wanted to not just move away from Google and Google Chrome

I wanted to move away from the entire Google ecosystem including the accounts

Oh I was way deeper than just browser

I unfortunately had an account, my entire phone linked to it, my Microsoft account linked to it and even my authenticator app linked to it which was responsible for 2FA on most of my non Google accounts.

It was all interlinked in a way that made removing it from the root hard

Yeee I’m using Firefox. It’s just difficult to desynch the Google services with all my accounts tied to it I had to one by one change em or even make new accounts entirely.

The worst is the fucking Google authentication app and how it’s tied into stuff like Discord…At least I’m out of the Google ouroboros now but it was still intensely painful.

As a former chrome user it’s so real. Chrome connects every device for you and once you ARE in the loop it’s hard to leave it. Wanna switch to Firefox? Oops suddenly your authentication doesn’t work anymore. Oh what about those useful Google logins tied to everything now? Good luck with that.

It took me huge effort to switch off chromium based browsers because the longer you use chrome, the more it worms it’s way into all your services making it harder and harder to switch. I still can’t figure out how to seperate my Yahoo account from my Gmail account

A huge reason I left is realising that if google decided I broke their TOS on something like say, YouTube ad blocking, they can just terminate by Google account and every service attached to it suddenly becomes unusable. I’d rather not be taken hostage like that

Edit: for all the wise people in the comments. I was trying to decouple entirely from Google products, not just chrome

Seriously I hate how disabling cookies is a hassle that you have to do on a seperate settings site… Where you get another cookie banner obstructing half of the settings

It’s an exchange for a cryptocurrency of the same name I did my homework

It’s cryptocurrency. What did you expect. THAT garbage is bound to be poorly coded.

That would introduce a point of annoyance IMO. Just remember that in older versions tapping it 5 times would trigger sticky keys. You’d constantly accidently trigger capslock when typing fast.