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Article is paywalled but the reason Google can get away with it is because they're getting them shipped without any connectivity.

Please just link to the original source...

Well at least he has that thing he named the company after to fall back on, right?

Not a reference, just a little BoneAppleTea for breakfast 😉

Yes, that's what was said...

That's not what a VPN or incognito modes do.

It absolutely is. I've verified this by toggling the VPN off and wallah access is restored.

Unfortunately most of the internet is login-gated at this point. And honestly a lot of it is justifiable, lest you let the bots run wild scraping your site until it goes down completely.

But it was quiet before that. It just means there wasn't any sort of announcement. Which is important context, don't you think?

None of them has something that can compare to the app store, play store, or even the Microsoft store

There are lots of reasons someone might choose Windows but...this ain't it. The Linux app managers are way easier to use, require no account, and aren't full of ads and malware.

Why

It always has been. And yet consistently for decades they continually turn to Big Tech anyway...

I mean there are worse things that could be making up...