On Play Store it's under a paywall by dev decision (to promote open source portals).

Isn't it moreso to support the dev easily?

It is, but Apple being Apple, they are going all malicious compliance and will break evening else for non-Safari browsers lol

Also this only applies in EU. To use 3rd party apps stores you won't be able to leave the EU for more than 30 days at a time as well

I still firmly believe there is at least one sane engineer there who'll discourage this, knowing this will drive the last few tech-savvy users and their family members and close friends away and I will die on this hill

It works 100% still as far as I can tell (my parents use Chrome with BO)

Yep, I use Firefox for the idea, but let's stop kidding ourselves that it is in any way memory efficient or fast

Which is unavailable on Chrome?...

Or you can enable "Annoyances" filters in uBlock Origin for the same effect

Can't say for OP but it still very much is where I live. People use groups for all sorts of things (neighborhood chats, classes, hobbies) and Messenger is the go-to way to contact everyone (which I admit has one advantage over all other mainstream means of contact, which is not requiring to share one's phone number, only name)

I can see the point for Airtags which work with most modern iPhones, or a hypothetical Google equivalent which could work with all Google Services-enabled Android devices. Is there enough Tile users around for it to make sense?

edit: also it seems Tiles now cost exactly the same as Airtags

bullshit. hating the world is just the easy way out, admitting you yourself are wrong is simply harder.

whats wrong with email?

whoosh