FrostyTheDoo

The answer is money and eliminating competition for money

It's an awareness thing. Everyone uses it because everyone else uses it, because it's the main one people know about, because Meta has unlimited money to market it and scale it, which are exorbitantly expensive.

Country Roads, Take Me Home by John Denver

It's a crowd pleaser every time

Hey get a load of this guy, can't even expose one lousy US war crime. He's basically complicit

Some TVs have tech called ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) that literally reads pixels on the screen for identifying information about what content is being displayed. If your TV has ACR enabled, it's possible it's tracking what you watch, even if you're viewing it through a device like Chromecast.

If your TV doesn't have ACR or the TV itself isn't connected to the Internet, then you're probably fine.

I choose this person as the recipient of my hug. I got you bro

You're forgetting one important thing - Bezos needs more money! Line must go up. Always. At any cost.

I was a long time subscriber as well, but canceled right before Christmas 2022. I missed it for about a week and then I realized most things I "needed immediately" from Amazon I could either 1) drive across town to purchase from brick and mortar or 2) actually just wait for it.

The end result has been me buying less things I don't need, and buying the things I do need from local retailers (and of course big box stores), or ordering them from other online retailers since the shipping is comparable to Amazon.

2 years in and I don't miss it at all, will never go back. I do want to watch the Fallout series though.

Sorry to hear that. Can I interest you in some Taylor Swift gossip or the latest news story about what Elon pooped out of his mouth this morning?

Lately it seems like many Taylor Swift fans would slit someone's throat for the opportunity to look at a pan that she might have touched one time

Twitter is a software, he's been saying stupid stuff about how it works for the last year+

Solely? No. But if the airbag, seatbelt, or self-driving autopilot feature that they created contributed to someone's death, they are partially responsible and should face consequences or punishments. Especially if they market it as a safe feature.