Doesn’t matter. If your PC is ever compromised, that feature is a one stop shop for stealing everything you have ever done on your computer.

Incredible. Their “AI” is just a bunch of people watching cameras in India.

It worked for Netflix. It’s easy to scoff at the clearly customer-antagonistic policies these services are turning towards, inevitably accompanied by the “well, they lost me as a subscriber” flood of comments. But the unfortunate truth is the vast majority of people just shut up and pay, resulting in big net income for the corporations that enact these policies.

Linux users are what everyone says vegans are.

Does it open Firefox instead, then?

OK, but is it actually booming?

Piracy of movies and T.V. shows really took off when torrents first appeared in the early 2000s. It seemed to peak five or six years ago, as new streaming services proliferated.

According to the European Union Intellectual Property Office, piracy bottomed out in 2021—before increasing again. “Current piracy levels are still nowhere near what they were five years ago,” Van der Sar wrote in a recent article.

We’re seeing a slight uptick possibly because of how fractured and inconsistent the streaming services have become, but we’re definitely not in some piracy renaissance yet.

What the fuck does this even mean?

Sure. I’m in no rush to replace my car with one of these, but it’s a great thing that this technology is already in production. With these actually going into real cars that people can buy and drive, we’ll get more data so that any serious issues will hopefully be identified and addressed in the next generation.

You’re in luck! There are millions of people playing games on Twitch. Who knew?

uBlock Origin is always the obvious answer.
SponsorBlock for YouTube.
FastForward to skip the delay on link shorteners.
Reverse Image Search does what it says.
Imagus enlarges any image you hover over with your mouse and saves you clicks, but can get in the way sometimes.
Flag Cookies has a lot of uses, but it’s mostly there to just grab my Google Drive cookies so I can download things a lot more efficiently with jdownloader2.
Recipe Filter if you’re trying to cook something but don’t want the writer’s autobiography.
ColorZilla if for whatever reason you want to steal the exact color code of a thing in your browser.