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Eli Lilly and Company wants to know your location.
We have a vaccine. Not a cure.
Because then the rival company would also go out of business. The pharma industry is not about absolute cure but about continuously selling things - like all industries do. Medicine that cures you entirely and is not needed afterwards forever again is nothing the pharma industry wants.
If this were true you wouldn’t hear from this at all.
A permanent cure isn’t something that is wanted by pharma companies. It’s better for them to have something that keeps patients alive and that they need regularly and that is expensive but cheap enough for them to get.
So stay with Microsoft. Since they’re already spying on you through their OS-integrated malware, having them spy on you through their search engine isn’t a big deal at this point.
Microsoft implements screenshot malware as Windows core feature that cannot be REALLY disabled without breaking the system.
my only concern is it might go away and can’t last forever like open source can.
For corporate use software I couldn’t care less. But for private use I’d never rely on closed source software that requires me to buy a usage license.
Good luck with finding an idiot company dumb enough to buy them with only one extremely failed product.
Maybe Mozilla will do it? They currently sink large amounts of money in AI bullshit like that.
But no way, big tech buys them.
So you need an ad blocker for that, too?
That’s actually pretty good!
ChatGPT has a voice?
Streaming for things you consume. Offline media for things you like.
Why deliberately go into vendor lock-in?