Neither do I, which is why I would love evidence to confirm my suspicions, so I can show it to others.

But I also try not to make claims that are merely suspicious, however likely.

I agree, but the argument here is “why won’t they let you upload more data if they make money off of it”. My point is that it doesn’t apply here, because uploaded files is not the data that can make them money.

Any proof, or just tinfoil?

I already use a different app for voice chat, and never used Discord’s voice chat feature.

Discord is a modern alternative to IRC, Slack, or a more fully featured version of Matrix. I never considered it for the voice chat feature.

People always bring up voice chat alternatives, which don’t replace Discord at all, because voice chat is a tiny unimportant feature of Discord that I wouldn’t notice if they removed.

Source that they make money off of uploaded files?

Press the volume down button. This will immediately silence the call without hanging up.

Press the volume down button. This will immediately silence the call without hanging up.

Yeah, sounds about right. This isn’t a case of “Google maliciously takes down a Google Maps competitor” like people are saying.

Strategy? You are assuming there was any intent behind it. The reviewers in third world countries are probably spending 30 seconds per app and are bound to make mistakes. Which in this case was reverted.

I’m not saying what’s “the correct play” or not, I’m refuting the claim all Chromium-based browsers are immediately affected, because I know of at least one that will keep V2 support.

But I will keep using Vivaldi. It will take me the same time to migrate to Firefox regardless if I do it today or a year from now when Vivaldi drops V2 support. I have nothing to gain by migrating sooner, but potentially much to gain by waiting.

• Vivaldi might decide to keep support indefinitely,
• Vivaldi might decide to update the built-in ad blocker to use UBlock Origin tech,
• Google might backtrack the decision (hah!),
• a whole different browser I want to try might come out in the meantime and I’d have to migrate twice,
• Firefox might die after losing Google funding due to the monopoly ruling.
• I will build a new PC in a year and it will be a good time for a software refresh,
• Or, the most likely, none of this will happen, and I will migrate to Firefox then, if that’s the best move at the time.

Vivaldi said they will keep V2 support. Not forever, but as long as they are able.

You may be thinking of Slack

Sure it’s possible, but it’s not practical.

Constellations are symbols in astrology, but stars themselves are not. Sure, constellations are made of stars, but words are made of ink and yet I wouldn’t say ink is a topic of literature.

Sun and Moon are astrological symbols, but stars aren’t, so Starbucks wouldn’t fit. :P

I think you meant astronomy. Astrology is pseudoscience horoscopes stuff.

The topic is about phones, and you said:

Gotta love android and IOS being utter dogshit.

If you are saying you started an offtopic conversation about Linux that had nothing to do with phones, and then, unrelated to your own comment, complained about Android and iOS even though your comment had nothing to do with phones, then… that sure is interesting.

bro i use linux, i have literally configured a fingerprint scanner to work before

So did I, can confirm it’s easy, and it doesn’t matter because we are not talking about configuring a fingerprint scanner to work, we are talking about having a phone lock screen that asks for both a fingerprint and a password, something that would require, at the very least, UI that I don’t think exists in any Linux phone project. That there is underlying functionality in PAM to make it happen is irrelevant, because that’s only part of such a solution.

do you think i’m just making up PAM?

No, why? I’m saying that there is no Linux phone where “you can just do this out of the box” like you say.

You claim so and yet have no example article, video, blog post, or any form of proof of it ever being done. Everything is possible in theory, even on iOS (with a jailbreak).

No matter how desperate companies want you to… Apple , looking at you

Are you implying there is some ulterior motive in phone manufacturers including fingerprint scanners? That Apple has them because they secretly want to make it easier for police to conduct phone searches? Because that’s a very bold claim, and “because customers like the convenience” seems to me like a much simpler explanation.