vmachiel

Same reason moms play solitaire on their phones. Just something they know to pass the time, no need for anything fancy or new.

Yet

It’s actually optimized for them. The goal is to get users to spend time and see ads etc. The UI is not made for us users.

Devils advocate here: it’s their webservice right? They determine who can access it.

If there were legislation that would force them to make it interoperable that would be one thing. But you can’t just demand access to their infrastructure.

That intro scene was so well done. It felt so real and inevitable.

This is fine imo. If you don’t want to comply, don’t. You just don’t get to extract EU data

And didn’t their president recently step down because of fraud with research data or something?

Things are going great over there.

But now the verified account can be like: ooo wow, we are totally humbled by the love for our product thank you so much you guys!!