What a bunch of BS. Windows 8.1 support ends next year FFS. I feel like there's real shenanigans here with the privacy invasion and how EVERYTHING and everybody wants you to absolutely use 10.
Yes, things need to move on and things become outdated, I know. Believe me, I know as a computer/tech guru. But just look at how 8.1 won't even be supported anymore. Really? In the web Dev industry it be like cPanel pulling the plug on a perfectly good running server OS way before its support ends.
Then I know damn well Google search results are skewed all to hell for Windows 10. Let me explain. When Windows 10 first hit the scenes I started seeing in quick order NOTHING but computer search results in line with Windows 10. Where was just a week before I'd see results for Windows 7. For example, if I were to type in something like:
How do I edit Windows with bcdedit? The relevant articles that would show up would have images from Window 7 and be more applicable with Windows 7. And those articles today still exist. But now if you type those search terms in you'll probably see articles more in line with Windows 10 and its images relating to Windows 10 screenshots. It was true right when Windows 10 was first released. I saw the search results and was taken aback just how fast all of the search results changed in short order. That doesn't happen unless you alter search code in the servers. And chimps (humans) can do that. Google is a company and can do what ever the hell they want...
Instead, pick your own search engine instance or roll your own with SearX.
SearXNG and searx instances Just know that list is
anyone's. So it'd be best to head on over to a hoster like everybody's favorite YouTube Promo Linode and create your own SearX server instance. There are written and video tutorials. You have no excuse.
Searx - Wikipedia
Google, Microsoft et al are running the show (well, they think so). They have all the money in the world and now want control. Once upon a time the words in the media were "million dollar companies, and million dollar budgets, and million dollar spending bills in Congress. Now the lexicon of today is full of words like, "billions and trillions." "A trillion dollar company." "He's worth a billion dollars." So rich they all are they can fly into space. LOL! Yes, kiss my rump money is nice of course, but the whole nature of these companies, their whole ecosystem is built upon BS. I see it in the code and the marketing (Comcast is a marketing extraordinaire...). Once upon a time Capitalism (an inherit double edged sword) was about making money. Not only for the benefit of you but for everyone else. Now it's about control.
A lot of website's are now requiring Firefox, Chrome or it's Chromium derivatives. Now a lot of websites that use Google's third-party code crap (think Google Web Components) want you to login with your Google account. eBay is now one such website and I saw another website not too long ago offer the same thing. This is new code they all added withen the last week or so to allow you login with your precious little Google account. That's Google code deployed on that website. That's what happens. This ability to login with one account (think Google, Facebook or what ever) is called OAuth and it's rife with bullshit! Not only from a security standpoint, but from a privacy standpoint as well. I for one never use that lazy ass crap of a one use password with OAuth spread across all websites that I have signed up with. It's like swearing allegiance to the freaking mafia while burning a picture of a saint FFS. I use the free and open source Keepass password manager and I roll my own damn 2FA (OTP second factor Auth.) with the KeePassOTP plug-in for Keepass. Screw Twilio's (shit company) Authy and all the rest! It's just a Base32 code anyone can use. It doesn't require a third party. For Android I use Keepass2Android as my password manager and its 2FA ability as well. I also use the Aegis 2FA App for redundancy. It may be a bit of work, but not for this computer literate person who knows what's going on. You can even flash Google's Android BS right off your phone with LineageOS or some other third party variant. Heck, your TV could theoretically be flashed with LineageOS.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this much. One day you won't even be able to take a damn crap without Microsoft, Google et al analyzing your DNA right from the toilet and sending the results to your doctor. All will marvel at its "futuristic and healthy lifestyle potential" yet still depend on the
three sea shells...
The future of the smart speaker. (This movie predicted the iPad/Tablet)... Check out Mycroft...
Anyway, this message will probably self-destruct like John Mcafee. But the block chain and the IPFS are as persistent as a
Pepperidge Farm cookie...
