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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a big contrast to continental Europe where if you go into any electronics shop they'll have Kobos on display as prominent as Kindles.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I think it's only Amazon that does lock screen ads but since they have two-thirds of the market share globally (and a near monopoly in the US where the Verge is based) then whatever they do in the e-reader space is "normal"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This is a massive tune to be fair

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

that's why what we really need is guaranteed service interoperability!

https://pca.st/episode/d79ca535-186c-4ee0-b658-165a148dcca5

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen a lot of chat recently about Google search quality tanking and it's made me realise that I haven't re-searched a DDG query in Google for a really, really long time. when I first started using DDG as my main a few years back, I would repeat searches in Google probably 25% of the time? but I honestly can't remember the last time I had to now. Been at least 6 months!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Debates about animal testing are important and understanding the realities of them is good, but I feel like it's easy to overlook maybe the most crucial component of this: Musk has openly and clearly lied about these tests and the realities of what point his technology is at, seemingly to mask the grim reality behind it