Honestly, this article is pretty bad at explaining the problem here. It’s clear that other websites will try to track you, but the important part of this incognito drama is this:

The plaintiffs also accused Google of taking Chrome users’ private browsing activity and then associating it with their already-existing user profiles.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/google-agrees-to-settle-in-chrome-incognito-mode-class-action-lawsuit/

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He wrote a techno optimist manifesto that reads like a proto fascist manifesto. In fact, he cites Marinetti as an inspiration, who was founder of the futurist movement, and later author of the fascist manifesto and a close supporter of Mussolini, so no surprise I guess. He enforces ideas that this century is just a bad rerun of the previous.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-religion-of-techno-optimism

I wouldn’t be surprised if the board is just doing what ChatGPT tells them to.

Honestly didn’t read it all because the writing style is too verbose (the story about his kids sounds like the ravings of a LinkedIn Lunatic).

The thing is expiring money would do nothing for inequality since accumulation is only part of the problem. If top paying execs get 500 times the average income of their workers they still have 500 times more money, and the possibility to make even more of it, no matter how much it takes before it expires.

What I don’t get from the article and announcement is how exactly does the testing works. Are you supposed to find 20 people that volunteer to test your app on your own, or can you just publish it as an in-testing app on the Store? What if it’s a small app and you can’t find the 20 people to test it?

I don’t really understand what problems Google is trying to solve with all the changes to the Play Store in these last few years. As a user, the problem is not low quality apps that haven’t been tested. It’s low quality copy pasted “free” apps that use the most despicable dark patterns. It’s not moderating questionable content like normalizing police violence (created right after the BLM protests).

I don’t want to give these people any ideas, but you can just pseudo randomize parameter names and decode them server side before storing them for analytics, so this is a non issue.

That’s cool and all, but maybe they could fix the broken ass taskbar that Windows 11 shipped with instead and get it to half the features that Win10 had? You know, things people actually care about?