Postpaid plans (the traditional ones which have contracts) usually give discounted or free phone upgrades while prepaid does not, so they can bring the price down.
Ah, right. (Still a mystery why they offer postpaid at that price if they don't want to).
But I think I'll stick with cricket after all. Still has discounted phone upgrades, still with no contract (although the phone can be unlocked from cricket until you've used it a year on cricket, I still prefer that).
(And, of course, to make things even weirder, cricket is owned by AT&T)
If a you manually copy text then that's a "gesture". Sites are able to add malicious code when you copy text and this won't change as far as I know. In terms of security, it's horrible but not new.
It's not a huge battery drain when I use it at all. Google already has a history of where you go so I don't even know why they would need more battery for it.
The solution there is to use the existing W10 taskbar that wasn’t removed, we can safely assume they’ll remove the W10 taskbar at some point and then the 2nd half of that blog post is relevant.