AdvancedCarrot

I think the answer is simple - they wanted to Sherlock Java.

Anecdotal but I've noticed Reddit has gotten very ban happy in general in the past year.

I actually gave up using it because, perhaps in part because I'm behind a VPN (required in my country), any new accounts I create get banned very quickly once I start commenting.

My suspicion is that they did it for privacy reasons.

Let me give you an example - you have a photo of someone. Should Google give you their facebook profile in the results if you search for the picture? Their AI is certainly capable of this, but some people would be understandably creeped out by it.

Yes but your employer needs to sponsor you for a green card, and they don't really have any incentive to do so (since once you have the green card you don't have to work for them anymore).

Indeed, the problem is they're just too high priced for the specs they're offering, unless you really, really have to have the Google software.

I do suspect that this is a big part of why the PS5 doesn't include a browser, despite one being available on the PS4. It's a shame really, would love to be able to browse the web from my PS5.

Probably not - this exploit only works on firmware version 4.03. The latest being 6.0 which any new PS5 is likely to already have installed.

I suspect it depends on where you live - in the UK at least they're readily available in GAME for example.

keep in mind that GTA V had to run on the PS3 as well. It's a technical marvel that the game worked at all honestly.

Indeed. I've offered them before to people who were borderline - i.e. in the interview they didn't really shine but I wanted to give them a chance to redeem themselves. Goes either way really.

Will say as well that Brave is much, much better out of the box for privacy than Firefox. Even with uBlock Origin and other privacy-friendly extensions, Firefox doesn't offer much in the way of anti-fingerprinting.

I live in the UK and honestly from what I've seen at least nice beer gardens are doing great, and even many of the regular pubs aren't necessarily doing badly.

I think people do like going out for a drink (and certainly not just to get drunk), rather I think the bigger problem is that its become far too expensive for many.

Main thing is vastly better privacy. Messenger doesn't use E2E encryption and has no options for disappearing chats.

Facebook can and do read your messages at will.

I think a big part of it as well is the music that comes in when you're first presented with this scene.

I genuinely think this game (which I didn't discover until years later following its release) has the impact that it has for me because of the brilliant soundtrack.

Thing is I'm not convinced that discord is really any better from a privacy perspective.

They still retain all of your messages (including DMs) unencrypted indefinitely with no easy way to remove them. Deleting your account doesn't remove messages either.