Nope. Ever lose a shoulder strap on a bra?

That’s not something the wearer would miss…

Hmmm. I wonder which corpo executive runs my local community power collective.

Dammit! Who let Grampa Dementia alone with the TV remote again?

Every damn time he watches Fox, he starts freaking out.

Next he’s gonna be seeing brown-skinned immigrants under his bed, tryna steal his compression socks.

Fuckin’ hell, people… can we please remember to lock up the remote before he finds it…

Be glad you didn’t buy an AntiFarts device and risk it going off in your car.

Time to start demnding that the memorials to the soldiers that died in Normandy and across Europe come down.

Those damned antifas, the nerve of them to go kick Hitler’s ass!!

Or… made a cursory attempt at “looking into it” and decide there’s nothing to find that is actionable, and report that back.

Can I send you this month’s electric bill to split the difference off of?

I have maintained a rigorous control on our home power useage for years and in spite of this, the bill has increased roughly 52% in the last year - and it’s aparently down to the increased demand that needs to be supplemented by purchasing power from outside of our region because of data centers.

If you love it so much… How about YOU pay the extra cost for those of us who did not ask for, and do not need, it.

It’s all part of the same thing… offloading burdens from the provider - be it a data center or google, onto the user, without permission.

You asked… I answered.

Dunno why you’re so butthurt over the fact that beyond the environmental claims, the issue of code being deployed into someone’s system without their permission or any ability to halt or prevent it means less to you than the former point.

Do you work for google? 'Cos damn dude, you’re coming down on this like you do.

Are they hating, or are they pointing out that companies that claim to be honestly working towards a “greener” end are adding unwanted and unnecessary code to users computers against their will. Code, BTW, that can not be removed permanently and adds not only the cost of the bandwidth of the download used, but also the general cost of the cloud-backed nature of it’s functioning to the mix. As someone that doesn’t use Chrome or the cloud, I’d be furious… The Keystone Agent (a perniciously rotten bit of code that eats clock cycles in one’s system and runs constantly in the background) that chrome updates with - it’s exactly why I quit the browser years ago.

Nuts to that.

What you are seeing is the end result of a fifty year long class war against the middle and working Americans that the rich have waged, and won.

Warren Buffet was making this known two decades ago and no one listened.