TJA!

You can also just download loops? Afaik there is only one instance at the moment either way

Problem ist that now people will say that they don’t get to create accurate subtitles because VLC is doing the job for them.

Accessibility might suffer from that, because all subtitles are now just “good enough”

Yes and this is completely in line with the theme of this post. They are all pretending

Well yeah, they are pretending to be Republicans as much as they were pretending to be Democrats before.

They are billionaires. The only thing they care about is money. And maybe not getting shot.

Ah, but there are still elections in other parts of the world, like Germany, where he is also very active

Yes, but that was still Google’s choice. They could have done something for the user but they did not want to

No. Google did it this way so people would blame the EU. They also could just have added more choice to the interface but they rather wanted to remove it to show their users “how bad the EU is”.

Same thing with the cookie banners. EU said you should give your users the choice if they want to be tracked. And the companies build these ugly banners so everyone would blame the EU. But they could also just have stopped tracking their users.

To make it even more clear let me rephrase it:

If you want to store sth like that, it would be classified as functional and you wouldn’t even need a cookie banner for it.

Only if you want to use it to track people you need to notify them