I mean, good for them. Now, if anyone has actual mental health issues, please get in touch with a trained, human therapist.

Then you’ll love being able to read a description of Android Authority at the same time.

That actually sounds interesting, yeah. Thanks for clearing it up, I was obviously out of that particular loop 👍

Okay, I’ll stop (what even is it?)

Edit: if you’re at all concerned about privacy, maybe provide something else than Play Store link for alternatives. Google bad.

While a fully functional version is available on F-Droid, the Play Store edition is subject to Google’s imposed limitations.

I think that’s the cause and solution rolled into one sentence right there. Use F-droid instead of Play Store.

Oh, let me wish 🙂

Upon which, logically, users just stop using Chrome?

“LOL”, I guess?

While true, doesn’t have anything to do with my comment?

I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —

Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.

Yeah, maybe that’s not the gotcha the author thought it would be.

Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.

Yes… In society… What else?

Most of their operations are now running with money as the motivation

Let’s be real, that was always their end goal. They were never “open” except in name. Their free services were only to a) build a user base, and b) use it as unpaid beta testers.

Seeing hos much the update looks like it was made at Fisher-Price, they probably do:

Meta will want to normalize these

Of course they will; it worked so well with Google Glass.

I’m an Endeavour user and I approve this message.

And old iOS set them up with poppers.

Is PirateBox still a thing? IIRC that was the exact use case for those 🙂

Edit: nvm, https://piratebox.cc/ shut down in 2019. I’m old.

TBF, I’d be happy to join the Satan Monthly Digest 🤘👹 But give it some f—ng contrast instead of all those wishy-washy pastels.

I know! Don’t get me started on the “adaptable” colour schemes that make any colour look beige… I was fine with the previous material design, TBH.

SMH, the screenshots shown in the blog post look exactly as my F-droid install (only light mode).