Every company that does this should be Boycotted. Creators and writers need to create their own organizations, unionize or even help one another into employment. AI could have been used for useful things but corporations can never be trusted to ever be ethical.

Have they tried not using that garbage heap?

I pray we get a Youtube competitor too, because Google has no incentive to change. We’ve needed one a while.

All this is doing is hurting the content creators themselves. Corporations like Netflix actively harm consumers and creatives.

Did you know Windows10 LTSC exists? It’s mainly free of any telemetry and you can tweak it fully, and even remove Edge by force if you need to ( though I believe you can also force remove Edge in the normal versions). Been much happier with the version.