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It's not just that he disagrees with the things on an object, what happened level. He actively reads malice into every misstep to paint the organization as abusive.

Yep.

Chromium has had tab groups for ages, both on desktop and mobile.

Brave has a setting to enable/disable the feature, idk if standard Chrome has it.

Huh? I use tab groups heavily in Brave. They're very useful, even if they're not nestable.

They don't have a business model yet, is the thing.


IME Apple's web apps are piles of pain and garbage.


I've found Proton Pass to struggle with autofill in some situations where BitWarden doesn't, and their create alias+create new login for alias flow has failed me sometimes, which is awkward, to say the least.


They have their own ecosystem of apps and services a la MS, Goog, Apple.


The big players would be fools to sell data, as such. Their whole thing is that they are so big they can target ads effectively. You'd be a fool to sell that data. They sell ad targeting and ad placement, not the data to do those things.


Money is money, and companies want more. Of course if they notice they can both sell you the product and have you be the product, they'll ask themselves "Why not both?"

The login thing is also probably partly because it does genuinely make the user experience better - log into a computer, To Do has your tasks, OneDrive and OneNote start fetching your notes and files, Edge seamlessly syncs your browser history, and so on. Things Just Work™. MS has a cloud-based clipboard and Edge has a OneDrive-backed AirDrop clone. All of that needs accounts to function properly.


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