Valve just takes 10% more than everyone else

What do you mean? 30% is used by almost every digital store.

Because that leads to the degradation of the software? Or because they provide most of the valid feedback? Or because that would help more users become more advanced?

I don’t know what do you think I wanted. I wanted to understand what American people think. If they like to avoid hard answers, it seems very similar to avoiding necessary solutions (at this point it may seem I support violence but I don’t). The scenario is becoming bad but everyone seems fine just doing nothing, as if people lost the right to affect anything.

That didn’t answer my question.

You said there are too many stupid users, then you said the software has to suit them. I see this as a problem when software targets stupid users because then the rest suffer from it being less convenient for them.

Also I think it’s hilarious how things become more complex for developers who should actually have the power to fork things in order to make them more suitable for advanced users. And apple is a good example of that. I would be a huge iphone fan if it wasn’t a walled garden in software terms.

Just wondering would it be any better if he was shot dead?

I know. This is not about how dumb users are, it’s about how dumb the software becomes with time.

I think most things in browsers got degraded thanks to Google, but also due to that specific way of thinking.

That’s not an opinion. That’s the lack of it. Plus a few grams of whataboutism. You’re a victim of Russian propaganda agents.

find sensible solutions

For example? How do you do that with terrorists?

Russia’s anti-terrorism goals

You’ll say this is a quote. The fact that you rely on this very phrase is hilarious. Either Putin equals Russia for you or you accept that he is not a terrorist.

It’s for the lulz science!

That’s better in all cases. But the original comment sounded like “look how I can go to this authoritarian county, encounter police who would ask me for my phone, and remain free and safe afterwards”. That would not be a good idea.

Did you know the MIR is the name of the national credit card system? There was a doc at some point about regulations concerning the design of these credit cards for banks. One of the rules said “do not decode MIR as an abbreviation”, which also included an example image of such improper use showing a text in Russian using M I R that translates into English as “we and Russia”. So…

Btw the word MIR directly translates as “world” and “peace”.

So you are okay with not getting your phone back from authorities…

That’s not an expectation. The experience is that this became a reality thanks to google, and that it will only get worse in the future. More competition within browsers is the expectation. Better chance for better frameworks to emerge. Eventually it may cause google code to shift into a better overall state too.

When trying to render a relatively simple page consisting few thousands of text lines in a table, any current browser will cause mouse cursor to lag for some time, then you’ll discover it consumes at least 2 GB ~ 4 GB of RAM. YouTube lags like I have 2 cores instead of 16. Any electron app is either clunky or too clunky, also either hungry or too hungry.

I’m sorry but I don’t have time to look up other cases.

I can’t understand how people can continue relying on chrome and derivatives like electron, CEF etc. and not see it as a problem.

Telegram requires a phone number.

It does and it sucks. But you can still have adequate protection because knowing your number won’t help authorities much. They have to find you in some group they deem illegal for anything to happen. They must find your account first, then add your number and see if that’s your account. Telegram did some improvements on that issue at some point, so it should take much longer and more resources to do.

Also it’s relatively easy to get a sim card not tied to your passport in Russia. Also using a cheap sim from another country is also an option, since you can set up a cloud password so that even if someone has your sim they won’t access your data fully.

This might as well be a honey pot for trapping more lgbt people.

A service requirement of a telephone number is not a honey spot. But sure some groups are honey spots. Yes, authorities mainly operate within the service. It can get to overwhelming extent but that mist mean they don’t have real backdoor-like access.

It’s not a matter of finding a more private app. It’s about keeping a group and have an opportunity to expand it, reach more people who would need to be a part of it. Any app in Russia that is not telegram would be too obscure for that. For now it’s a perfect balance between privacy and reach.