I switched away from Chrome a few years ago when it became slightly evil regarding trying to own login information. I seem to have made the right choice. (I'm not mentioning what I've switched too because it never results in meaningful discussion.)

Completely normal for Google. A few weeks ago they bricked my Chromecast. It wouldn't take casting from Netflix anymore, so I looked it up and everybody including Google tells you to reset the piece of crap. I did, and now Google home won't connect to it anymore. Something about a certificate expiring somewhere and now it won't work at all.

I'll try again in a few months and then bin it. I won't be purchasing any further cast/stick devices, I'll simply use a laptop and chrome, and when that stops working, I'll stop using Netflix or Amazon prime video.

This stuff scares me. The amount of schools dependent on this sort of stuff and google’s estate is insane here (UK).

They have no contingency plan either.

I don't understand why people so commonly misuse "bricked" these days. Your computer running like crap isn't bricked, it's just shitty.

Just wait till google and youtube uses ai to access camera and track your eye movements to detect whether you are actually watching ads or not, when ad comes and you place your phone away or move your eye away for time being ad gets complete, ai will detect you are not watching ad and pause it, thus when you return it will play again, thereby forcing us to watch ads

oh wow, literally too hot to touch.

I imagined it was like too hot as in syphoning off all your data but yikes, this is both that and physically too hot.

Google not being evil. /s