Drinking alcohol or buying it? Because in Britain it's 18 to buy it yourself but 5 to have it at home.

Other way round for me, my IRL time contains the serious shit, I come online for escapism

I don't know if there's any precedence anywhere for forcing code to be open sourced, but it's a nice dream!

I can't even get too mad at this, it makes complete sense for an OS to have built-in malware scanning because casual users will unintentionally install dodgy shit. The key thing is that those of us who don't want Google having a nosey through our device can still disable it trivially, because if that option goes then suddenly we're as bad as Windows!

Do you want to see people suffering? Because that's fucked up.

Firstly, that sounds like a shit situation to be in, so please don't think I'm dismissing your struggles here.

I don't live in the same country as you and I have no power to even slightly affect your political situation. I read enough bad news about stuff that I at least have a chance to get involved in that sometimes I want to read some funnies on the internet without having to read about another shit situation. It's not because I don't care, it's because it's not worth stressing out further about something I cannot do anything about.

So yeah, that's why people don't want so see US politics everywhere. Just because something is very important doesn't mean it's very important to everyone.

And more critically one is open source so you can verify that it does what they say it does and the other one does not!

No I think you've missed their point. E2EE is end-to-end encryption, as in the message can't be intercepted in the middle but it's unencrypted at the end so you can read it. Because the WhatsApp app is closed-source you don't know that it doesn't immediately read the message and send the content to Facebook. It probably doesn't, but it could! E2EE itself means that some third party can't read your message in transit, though to be fair closed-source again means we just have to trust Facebook when they say WhatsApp uses E2EE.

No problem then!

If those are the things that make money, those are the things with money to spend on ads

Ah, well that's the important thing. Actual new major versions are mainly just bells and whistles these days!

Well yeah, why would they advertise anyone not paying them?