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Some Chromium browsers like Brave and Vivaldi already announced they'll extend it for as long as they can, and when they no longer can't, they'll think of something else like improve their own blockers.

The problem with Language Transfer is its very limited language selection and its format.

Duolingo allows reading, writing, listening and speech (last two can be disabled if unsuitable in your context), and it does not impose daily limits. I've yet to find an alternative app that does all 5 of those things.

Unpopular opinion, but phones these days don't really need more buttons, but less. We have a huge touch screen after all, let's take better advantage of it!

• "Action button" - Android phones have had a long press of power button be the assistant button since Android 12, just set your "assistant" as whatever action you want (e.g. with Tasker).
• Sleep/wake button - can be the power button for now, but also don't forget double-tap on the home screen/lock screen/status bar.
• Power off/on - virtual button since Android 12, physical button for turning on. In case of emergency, I guess hold down for longer or do something like triple-tap.
• Volume keys - every video app should use onscreen gestures, same could be applied for music. In other contexts, statusbar or side swiping gesture could suffice, plus a notification shade slider like some OEMs already provide.

Though that does not equal to interest by the devs who create ROMs and other such content.

Maybe less of a concern since Treble but a concern nonetheless.

Who knows what skeletons are still hiding?

Go and have a look? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

My argument is that Brave is a Chromium browser with questionable business goals, but it is also the most private and secure, open-source, mainstream* Chromium browser. These keywords cannot be said about Vivaldi, Ungoogled Chromium and many other projects unfortunately.

That said, I primarily use Vivaldi because of its customizability and added features, something Firefox seems to reduce with every new version.

• Not quite on Edge or Opera level, and no accurate data can be found due to the removal of unique user agent, but nonetheless I'd argue it is more popular than others of similar kind.

For real though, how could AI be used to enhance browsing?

Well, in the 90-00s search engines were taught to be used with keywords. Then Google started to make it work with sentences and speech as well. Now AI is supposedly* answering complex questions and getting organized data for you.

• as long as the data is factual, which depends on your question, language model and availability of answers

I personally think it would be good if people had access to AI the same way search engines exist, but most AIs are still locked down to an account or payment, mainly for accountability and marketability purposes I'd say.

Well, at least the full app has the opt-in E2EE chats.

Build (dig) a basement?

I wouldn't even care about speed actually, the data caps should be more fair. Imagine getting 50GB at home and 16GB in EU...

The parent may then be asked to consent to a scan of their face using a front-facing camera, which is then used to "accurately estimate the parent's age."

the only piece of information that is communicated to the company requesting [Verifiable Parental Consent] is a 'Yes' or 'No' determination as to whether the person is over the age of 25.

So that's settled, people under the age of 25 can no longer have children.