This headline is misleading

It is only for hot patching. Updates are still free while the support window is open.

GPL is a major win here

F-droid is nice in that regard

Most likely it has ads

That sounds like most people online

Was it people or bots who were impacted

Realistically you shouldn’t depend on a single place for backups

Remember 3-2-1. Three places, two mediums and one offsite

casually replies to self in agreement

Isn’t this guy a communist?

I can’t actually remember and I’m both curious and lazy

I feel like most apps are junk in one way or another

India is scaring me

Is it Chrome or is it the web page

It isn’t? The model is still a binary.

Also they are talking about the cloud service not the local model

Username checks out?

Good for him I guess

What is likely happening is that bots are manipulating bots

Why?

Could you not just bookmark them

Firefox suspends tabs to disk

Or even better, PDF

Sort of

They aren’t OCI containers and the sandboxing is weak at best