I had a feeling this would happen. I have to use Google services for a lot of things at work and Edge works fine with them. Firefox usually does okay, but not always. And now Firefox is requiring you to hand over your data to them.
Can any Chromium-based browser refuse to turn on V3 or is it too baked-in without forking the entire project?
Musk doesn't take orders and he sure as hell doesn't take requests. Knowing that it offends just makes him want to do it more. He loves the attention, it's why he bought Twitter.
All it would take is just one consequence and the house of cards would fall down. But that would require someone with a spine to actually accomplish. I don't see it happening.
I think it's difficult to avoid feeling that way. Part of me feels bad about it because I know the other side would be laughing their asses off if we were the ones feeling betrayed. But now is not the time to gloat, there's too much we have to do to fight this as best we can.
They only value (mostly white) men. Everyone else should either not exist or be functionally invisible. Women are baby factories and sperm receptacles. Children are a hindrance and shouldn't be seen or heard until they're adults, although exceptions can be made for child laborers. They essentially view others only in terms of what value they can offer. Children require resources, their net value is negative until they can work, their own children included.
You may have noticed Don Jr and Eric don't seem to around the current administration. You don't have to be a psychologist to realize their relationship with their father isn't a good one, even as adults. They were not as useful as expected, deemed low-value, and have been relegated to echoing their father's bullshit on social media.
Governmental advocates for mandatory backdoors have no clue that they effectively make encryption moot. UK users will only be silghtly less secure with no encryption vs. backdoored encryption.
He loves attention, positive or negative. He's eating this up.