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Gemdationon Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff

> The best thing Fandom could do for the community is close forever.

Ironically, the community of wiki admins there wouldn't like that as it would kill their community. What other platform easily hosts free wikis?

Gemdationon Google banned me from Google Voice

He was also targeted by Google's automated system? Odd, he was not so lucky.

> My only worry has been that it seems like another product that Google could easily decide to kill off and send to the Google graveyard at any moment.

I feel the same way about Blogger, and I even had a page on Blogger that was banned after I signed in on their Android app. This was around 2020-2021 and I only requested a manual approval by an email button IIRC, that got that page back up as fast as it got taken down.

It is sad that Google Voice and Blogger are neglected enough for this to happen.

Gemdationon DuckDuckGo has an AI chat (beta)

I wouldn't be surprised if it is powered by something Microsoft-made, or anything else for that matter.

Their web browsers are just web view wrappers, their search engine itself is just Bing.

Gemdationon Google monopoly: Prosecutors hint at breakup, but analysts say it's unlikely

> Google took the Justice Department's hint, responding to last Monday's filing with a blog post contending that "splitting off Chrome or Android would break them—and many other things."

Quick question, (I think) if YouTube and Google split, which userbase would get to keep their purchased content (Movies & TV)? This has been bugging me since a lot of Google services are connected in some way. IIRC you shouldn't be able to purchase new content on Google TV platforms.

Gemdationon Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024

One of the commenters was thinking the same thing as me

> People are going to only read the headline and interpret it as “discontinue”. Like the article says, it just means they have enough inventory until they replace it with something cheaper. [https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/report-apple-may-stop-p...]

I wonder how Apple would go through with this, hopefully with a better form.

Gemdationon Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

I feel the need to correct a misconception, of course. Yes I am aware of the Firefox and uBlock Origin combo.

Gemdationon Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

I'd like to remind everyone that you can still block ads with such Chromium browsers that are deprecating Manifest V3. Extensions include AdGuard and uBlock Origin Lite.

What this changes is that (adblocking) extensions are losing some permissions (like manually picking out elements to block, web requests to update the block lists, etc).