This thread should be renamed to 101 reasons why business give Windows or Macs to their employees.

You’re buying… A temporary permission to access certain content.

So that we can be too late to do anything now.

They got a service provider to let its users browse Facebook for free, but that was banned a year later for being unfair. It’s still a thing in other developing counties I guess.

So… If Russia “wins” parts of Ukrainian territory, it’s all valid?

from starting ignoring their own UN

Imagine the bonuses if your country directly got involved in the war!

If you paid for it on Play Store and the app gets pulled from there, you won’t be able to download it again.

Indeed, but it’s true - Brave did bring this feature long ago. It’s a good thing for us, let multiple browsers try to one up each other on privacy focused features.

expand their Brazilian manufacturing footprint

Wouldn’t the low cost raw material extracted from the forests be a factor responsible for this?

Kids that age certainly know how to use a lot of apps, but only in the walled gardens these apps allow them. It’s going to be generations of kids only exposed to very curated experiences that companies what them to know.

Classic. Can’t pay for the welfare of the common citizens, but will happily dole out military contracts for poking it’s nose in lands far away from home.

I’m confused - the article does not mention anything about the attacker being an immigrant or from any certain origin/group. What’s the riot for then?

you too would expect someone to do something about it, or do we just put another lock on the bank hoping this time it will be enough

Americans have been shooting down each other in schools with guns for years. Don’t see anyone doing anything about it…

If Ukraine started producing those weapons themselves, they’d suddenly find that US aid has turned into a trickle.

That’s a valid point, though the article sounds like cultivation was going on during the the time the Taliban wasn’t in control and is now being banned by them.

I have no doubt that the actual farmers got nothing of value in either regimes though.

The UNODC said the Taliban crackdown on the poppy industry could have a negative impact on many Afghans’ livelihoods and warned of "humanitarian consequences for many vulnerable rural communities.

So to stop growing drugs is a bad thing now?

Why does Firefox need to tell Google which sites you’re visiting even if you don’t use Google Search ?

Let’s see what new excuse the US and Europe come up with to justify this while condemning the same acts by Russia.

People were all too happy to give the Russian people a pass when they invaded Ukraine. It wasn’t “Russians” who were killing Ukrainians, it was “Putins Russia” that was responsible for this “Putins Invasion”. The same kind of narrative is never extended when the parties involved aren’t white.