That makes a huge difference

Not to mention a nice reminder that Elon’s petty fiefdom has its limits.

Perhaps this is to reflect the amount of fast growing up a girl in the situation of lilo would realistically have to do.

What about the right to one’s own body?

The problem is, walled gardens helps lock-in users. Meta and Twitter et al want lock-in. It only takes the CEO to decide they don’t wanna play nicely and boom, back to walled gardens again.

However, the Prime option is deliberately colourful and placed next to the grey no-Prime option so the Prime option is the first thing you see. Then maybe you look back and see ‘oh there’s an option to continue without Prime’.

It’s worth noting that a lot of Chinese citizenry have actually benefitted from the CCP in regards to the serious economic growth China has seen in the last few years. Or at least, a lot of the Chinese citizenry attribute the growth to the CCP, and it’s understandable why.

There are a lot of people in China that genuinely like the CCP government, and not in a Stalin way where you only said so to avoid disappearing.

That’s not to say the CCP aren’t guilty of some serious crimes, but when you’ve got a large amount of people having somewhat recently gone from from poverty to middle class, you tend to get a few die-hard supporters.

This is typically used for a secondary authentication factor in most instances, such as a service ID number after you’ve already provided a username, and entered at the same time as a password.

It is not possible for them to securely be storing the password yet being able to retrieve individual characters at the same time.

With a native app, the only thing you really need to send back and forth is some JSON data and let the app do the formatting for you. It’s a much better arrangement when your target demographic includes those with bad internet.

I dunno, getting it installed on modern machines is quite The Climb