phobosdeimos

Looking back the 1970s was also when mass tourism in Europe went in full swing. Paid holidays became a human right. While in the US low cost shuttle flights were the new railways.

I am thoroughly unimpressed when Americans are talking about how my country should be run. We are doing just fine thanks for the concern.

Yeah I have seen ecommerce sites that were using Symantec. Nobody cares about Firefox I guess but once Chrome starts enforcement shit will hit the fan.

As I see it people in the US believe that the whole of the country needs to be treated equally. If you live in rural Kentucky your internet speed has to be the same as someone who lives in NYC. Pointing out that New York is the economic engine the US runs on and deserves to get priority makes everyone upset.

Build more towers. Which ofcourse means investing money and not paying dividends to investors.

I pay €35 per month for unlimited 4G, internet neutrality included.

Everyone here actively despises the local film industry. We do not need to inflict Dutch television on the world. Thats torture.

Good shows should earn their ratings, not be force fed- if your culture is so great France and Germany you wouldn't need these subsidies. Netflix is not a public broadcaster.

Not where I live, net neutrality applies to T-mobile too. Throttling on purpose is illegal.

Cheap Chinaphone: €300 DNS66 and Yalp store so that nobody gets payed: priceless

There are easier ways to frustrate the tech industry. Oh and if you live in the US mobile networks will still sell you out no matter what brand your phone is. They all have to connect to cell towers.

An ad blocker also removes the ads from Google search though.

The tech industry is being propped up by ad money, no wonder we get all these privacy scandals.

"I mean, what would China look like now without so much surveillance and social control"

Chinese history offers a good hint. Whenever the central government was weak anarchy, war, pestilence and starvation plagued the land.

China has a tech industry that is on par with Silicon Valley. India doesn't.

They are on the right track, America is going off the deep end and can no longer be relied upon as a trustworthy and sane ally. The EU is desperately trying to get away from that sinking ship but you can't undo 70 years of geopolitical and economic reality easily.

And win10 has a local account option, no MS account needed to access all the features.

ChromeOS is for people who are not technically inclined and don't care much for privacy. The majority of users I am sure.

Yep while everyone was fighting yesterday's war with Microsoft another company took over the internet. Well done guys. Google has more power than MS did at any point in the 90s.

Funny how I can block in-app ads and trackers on Android even without root. Although that's more thanks to Linux than Google I'm sure.

Well I haven't seen an ad on any of my computers or phones in the last 2 years. Obviously if everyone was like that the entire tech industry would have collapsed already.

Look up how much win7 used to cost and how much you have to pay for win10. Microsoft knows that Google is the competition.

No just realistic. MS can afford patch Tuesday.

Yeah I don't know what people expect. YT is huge now, they are being watched by governments and corporations alike. The days were you could find entire movies on YT or Al qaida recruitment videos is long gone. If Google steps out of line everyone is immediately at their throat.

Seems to me anyone can send a takedown request, or rather program a bot to do it. There seems to be no cost or due diligence involved.

People want to blame Google but they have no choice but to comply with current copyright laws. YT is investing a lot of money in monitoring its content. The internet isn't cool anymore.

Thats pretty backwards. Just make it illegal for banks to sell customer data. No need to make life miserable for everyone.

Moving to Europe? I have always despised creditcards, their business model is anti consumer and legalised theft. Luckily I live in a country that has superior payment options.

"holding Europe hostage with their gas pipelines"

Only countries that can't or won't pay. Take Ukraine, all the gas destined for Germany and the Netherlands (people who have payed their bills on time since 1950) had to go through them. Russia couldn't shut down those Ukrainian deadbeats because then they would lose billions.

The world is not black or white.

Yeah I don't see how a country can actually function WITHOUT this but that might just be my first world bubble.

Freedom is slavery.

Yeah I doubt anyone has ever learned about Netflix through Google/Apple app store. Netflix is a huge brand.

Android doesn't have system wide sideloading anymore, if I allow sideloading for one app its still disabled for other apps.

Nobody trusts this sector. Was the same for doctors a hundred years ago. Now doctors take an oath and lose their license if they are caught doing something unethical. Maybe the tech sector will get there one day too. Until then assume hostility.

There was an electronics retailer in my country who did this. It worked great for a few decades but online shopping killed it.

A website has unlimited shelf space, physical retail doesn't. And e commerce has now been pretty much perfected with free next day delivery and internet banking.

Thats the deal with open source. Don't like it commercialize and see if you can make it your day job. You'll have to pay programmers too though, no more free work from the community.