Of course they are without any data privacy laws companies are going to collect and then sell as much of your personal data that they can get away with.

This didn't come to light until recently see this article that the posted article links to.

For me it's the removal and change of UI elements. There is still no built in way to move the task bar to the top or side of the screen and to get a useful right click menu back I have to go into the registry and change a value. There is also the whole thing where you are forced to use a Microsoft account with no option to use a local account instead.

Every year I tune into this and every I stop watching because the host segments are so bad. Just show us the games and not the cringey wrap around segments they seem to think we want.

Nanowar of Steel is great too. Who else would make a Rhapsody of Fire tribute/parody, make it about Barbie, and then get the original Rhapsody singer to do lead vocals.

Ross Scott, the Freeman's mind guy, has a series called game dungeon where he plays old games and talks about them. That being said he does come off as old man yells at cloud a lot of the time.

Arstechnia has two solid space reporters along with the occasional astronomy piece. They also have a weekly Rocket Report newsletter that goes out Thursday evenings covering what happened in the past week.

There is a vocal contingent of people online who hate that chromium has the vast majority of market share of browser rendering engines.

Played the first one off and on until I finally finished it late last year after getting it in some bundle. A solid Metroid Vania. Can't wait to play the second.