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What how so? They already have taken a deceptive consent from every registered user to show ads profiled on per user basis, and serve numerous clicks on their website that offer ads or ad-like stuff.

What is your alternative theory of why they are doing all this?

They can't do what they are doing here without an intent to violate privacy.

I have been using Hacker's Keyboard since ... forever?

I am saying that it was probably sabotaged by Microsoft leaning leadership at Nokia.

Also, despite being Linux core, Android itself was shit in the beginning. Gingerbread (G) was the first edition that won favour with buyers. Hardly any takers of android for its first six versions (A to F). Not even the techy nerds were buying Eclairs.

Around 20 years ago, iOS used to outclass everything by a big margin. Android, Nokia/Symbian, RIM, etc were closer to each other than to Apple. And now ...

As of 2024, fresh competition to android is needed.

When Microsoft bought Nokia, Steve Balmer (ex-Microsoft) was at Nokia helm. His work with Nokia was so much in the interest of Microsoft that he was rewarded with head chair of Microsoft not much time later.

Yahoo was the competition as far as space is concerned. Even today, it offers a whopping 1 TB for email.

They also messed up Nokia before killing Windows Phone. Nokia's Symbian used to be a serious competition to android.

Are you talking about Chrome?

How is that supposed to work? Firefox's own products in itself are not that reassuring for user privacy. It was better when Moxie collaborated with them to improve whatsapp code. At least that guy's products were respected for privacy at that time.