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There's a certain common expectation one has from any UI. This doesn't exist for me with anything Google - be it search, Youtube, Android, etc. - my first thought is always 'I'll need to fight it to get the results I'm looking for.' That's how they roll.

Firstly, on a personal note, I must say getting heavily downvoted on a factual statement and not an opinion is a new and confusing experience for me.

My comparisons were made several years ago using LAME 320 CBR, LAME VBR, OGG, lossless (WAV) 16bit 44.1kHz and lossless (WAV) 16bit 48kHz. I believe at least most professional musicians and sound engineers would be able to identify the difference between all of these; while they might not always be "worse", their sonic character is certainly different.

It all depends on how sensitive you are to these things, I've done such blind tests, and to my ears the fall in quality was significant, even painful.

Doesn't work anymore. At least not outside the US.

Perhaps we could, by adopting the way Firefox, Wikipedia, Internet Archive et al. operate.

Unless, of course, they are aware of it and try to subvert it by consciously modifying "their body shape characteristics and motion patterns".

    I have a taste for the secret, 
    it clearly has to do with not-belonging; 
    I have an impulse or fear or terror in the 
    face of a political space, for example, 
    a public space that makes no room for the secret. 
    For me, the demand that everything be paraded in 
    the public square and that there be no internal 
    forum is a glaring sign of the totalitarianization 
    of democracy. [. . .] if a right to the secret is 
    not maintained, we are in a totalitarian space.

(Jacques Derrida, in Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan & Co., II, p. 599.)