-Searching with a particular search engine through the URL bar, used to take one touch gesture. Now you need to press "Search engine", scroll down to your selection (e.g. wikipedia isn't visible by default), press it, and then select among a weird collection of recommended search alternatives.
And, as op said, you don't even have the option to use keywords and be done with this nonsense.
How would state coercion bear better fruit that the love of freedom?
I'm not yet a taxpayer, but I'm not looking forward to having my money be wasted on yet another "service" that neither I nor most people would choose to benefit from. I'll wager the postal service is an example of waste of public funds that translates well across borders.
Evidence that open source leads to better software abounds. I don't think one could say the same about state-funded anything unless one lives in that fictitious country called Finland.
Wow, as a fan of your web persona, I find your stance on this intriguingly Stallman-ish. All the more because you omit making the utilitarian fungibility-talent margin argument, which I'd expect you to be aware of.
I find refusing to "build the tools of oppression" more defensible on utilitarian grounds than denying to even use such tools (apart from practical considerations, that is e.g. vendor lockdown, privacy issues etc).
And yet you already claim to be boycotting evil corporations, which in my eyes amounts to pretty much that.
I suppose I can buy the "we shouldn't normalize morally wrong behaviour" as long as it remains defensible on utilitarian grounds i.e. working for megacorps. But I have a hard time seeing my use of e.g. google translate as morally wrong.
-JS Bookmarklets no longer work.
-Searching with a particular search engine through the URL bar, used to take one touch gesture. Now you need to press "Search engine", scroll down to your selection (e.g. wikipedia isn't visible by default), press it, and then select among a weird collection of recommended search alternatives.
And, as op said, you don't even have the option to use keywords and be done with this nonsense.