They’ve put the text in the image to circumvent filtering lmao

Yeah that’s what made it Mildly Interesting for me. I’ve seen a few tourism ads here and there but never something like this.

They’ll call it “foreign interference”

Honestly it kind of is. Though in this case I’m all for it.

Incredible game. If you ever get the chance I 10000% recommend playing it.

Google gets to control the source code, what additions are added, and what features don’t get into it.

Yes technically some organization could fork it and then maintain a fork themselves. But it’s a huge undertaking that almost nobody has the money to fund. Browsers are free so there’s really not a lot of monetization schemes for browsers.

So nobody as far as I know has really been able to maintain a hard fork of chromium for very long. Remember, every change you make then has to be maintained by you and then you have to keep it up to date with the chromium master tree while also keeping all of your changes compatible. It is a big undertaking almost as big as modern operating systems. Browsers are just too complicated so Google in this position does still have a monopoly that’s very hard to fight.

Almost all browsers other than Safari and Firefox are based on Chromium, which gives Google a ton of control.

…it’s an American propaganda outlet

IIRC they basically never send anyone to Laos - it’s “uncooperative” with deportations. So it wasn’t that insane.

Modern Android TV box with a custom launcher. Apparently Projectivity launcher is decent.

But if you already have a Shield that’s cool keep it until it stops working. I’m just not gonna tell anyone to go buy one.

Because it’s end of lifespan and you should spend your money on something that will at least get a few years of support and updates

Yeah but I wouldn’t recommend anyone go and buy one at this point.

We’re not stupid. We’ll invade from Buffalo.

Use a separate, not ad-riddled device plugged in via HDMI. If you have a game console it can do this.

I don’t know what’s good for Android TV boxes it used to be the NVIDIA Shield was a well regarded streaming device but it’s really old now. Google makes one (Google TV Streamer) and you can install a custom launcher if you’re a bit technical and the “suggested content” of the stock launcher bothers you. Same for other Android TV boxes.

Apple, like them or not, makes a really decent TV box with no system level ads and an interface that mostly stays out of the way.

To be fair if you take a flagship Android that cost similarly to what the pro iPhone cost the iPhone resell value is still usually way higher as the years go on even though the initial prices were the same.

But does it really matter?