Then it is not as easy to use as the mechanism you used to sign up, and it's now against the law.

Yet, it's the same media. Sure, "the same media" is already something. I remember a supposedly no-strings attached phone company that you could only cancel with a plain old snail mail (that was in EU by the way, for those of you who believe EU is the paragon of consumer protection).

And the US has done this continuously over the last few decades. GP shouldn't have excused Russia, but the US is just as guilty.

I’m not excusing Russia - it has a long, long way to go to catch up with the magnitude of the crimes of the USA, but it will only face justice once the US has done so. The USA sure isn’t in any position to bring real justice to the world.

What's your point?

How long will it take to convince them that it is worth it to get into long-running relationships with the US. How long before another populist is elected who will rip up agreements for weird reasons and you have to renegotiate them?

Why does everyone assume that we're the ones keeping money under the mattress, not the ones who would have been paid by money otherwise not spent? All transactions have two sides, no?

It isn't though. For example, the very article we are discussing.

Last time I looked they had broken copy/paste behaviour which dates back decades

If said copy paste behavior allows any app to snoop on any other apps' clipboard content without control, then it's been broken for decades.

I.e. spend more money to do things the TV can perfectly well do. We should make the spying illegal so we can use the devices we buy to their full potential without being sold to advertisers. "Give money to this other company that may or may not also be collecting data and may also sell you out in the future" is a suboptimal solution.

I don't think we can do anything substantial. So I'm going to just use this "suboptimal" solution.

No, we should decouple the display hardware from the playback device. Spying or not, the playback part will be obsolete long before the display part.

This probably includes little silly games like Candy Crush, and (maybe) others that seem more like "paper" games like Sudoku, Wordle, Connections, etc. Many play those, especially the second bucket.

50K without a proper CPU, mind.

Insane

My only beef with Jellyfind when I used it some time back was inability to resize subtitles, which were huge on a large TV. Could have been lack of knowledge on my part though.