Wow, yes, great argument.

Some popular media is widely spoiled therefore no spoiler ever matters in any other media.

Weir says. “We want people to go now I want to know what’s going on.”

Well, you spoiled it already, so I already know and I kinda lost interest in the movie…

Countries? Don’t be ridiculous.

And any company that made itself so dependent on unproven bullshit kinda deserves it.

You see, that’s the fun thing.

Android will still technically allow sideloading, they’ll just make it difficult and scary for average user, and annoying for devs.

Oh, sorry.

It’s just hard to assume good intentions when so many people actually excuse these actions. :/

“Not that deep”? They shouldn’t have been anywhere near the border, that’s not where the front lines are.

And some of them were shot down, you can’t just claim it’s “not that deep” as if they just stopped by themselves.

I’m not saying I don’t sympathize, but when this happens to me I just downvote and move on.

There’s a difference between what you’re saying, and intentionally visiting threads about a thing you supposedly care so little about that you have to announce it for everyone.

Yeah, that mural was very clever.

The gov really had no winning move either way, and realistically leaving it up was never an option anyway.

Yeah, but I think they implemented the same restrictions Google is planning, so I’m not very helpful that EU is gonna stop Google…

What exactly are you trying to argue here?

You say automated updates good, mandatory updates maybe not?
But there’s no difference on Windows, that’s the point. You, as a user, get no choice.

You will get broken updates and unwanted features whenever they decide, because it’s ultimately about the same thing with both MS and Android: taking away your control of your devices.

That’s the same argument people used to praise Microsoft for forcing mandatory updates.

Every year they force untested updates breaking the OS or even bricking the hardware.
And Windows is still vulnerable despite the updates.

That’s what the OP is referring to: Google just announced they will do their best to kill off sideloading.

One person’s inability to use a common device is not an excuse to make it worse for everyone else.

My parents are pretty incompetent when it comes to tech, but it wasn’t difficult for them to understand not to install random shit and call if in doubt.

Last I checked GDPR is still supposed to be followed in Germany and processing of attendees’ data in this way should probably be very explicit and opt-in.

But I’m sure they got these people’s agreement before feeding their info into this bullshit generator. /s

Well, I’d expect a professional driver to anticipate and switch lanes early enough instead of hugging the left lane for no reason…

I have no doubt about it…

Yeah, what they really do is worse.

They just remove your ability to buy/play the original, so literally everyone loses.

It’s easy to think that Discord isn’t reading your messages or listening to your calls, because the utilize End to End Encryption.

It’s easy to think they’re reading your messages, because they don’t use E2E (only calls use it).
They admit that right in the link you sent.

They also keep scanning your computer for running processes with no way to disable it (for game detection).

tl;dr is if you care about privacy, do not use Discord, or at least not for anything more serious than sending memes.

People being excited about getting spam from a scammer.

What a time to be alive…