No but once ChatGPT starts threatening Google's revenue model, maybe they will start putting effort into improving their drastically deteriorating search engine.

But why is that good for me?

Why do I care if Google succeeds or dies?

If anything I want them to die for ad infested they've made the internet. I don't want ads in either chatGPT or Google Search.

they need to win search share to threaten Google's revenue model: take traffic from google.com, so google will sell ads. Going to ads busyness is not necessary for this.

Or search, Youtube, chrome and android could all see their enshittification ramped up, which might not be the outcome you want.

it would be polite to disclose this in your original post (although it was fairly obvious anyway)

Regular YouTube videos on mobile also don't allow you to change the volume separate to the phone's 'master volume'. I don't think this is a TikTok/YouTube specific thing - you just don't see separate volume sliders on mobile like you would on a video playing on desktop.

Nor would I to, to be honest. That’s not the convention for mobile. I’d probably be confused if it were there.

VLC on mobile at least lets you swipe to change the volume.

I was referring to desktop. Youtube shorts does not allow you to change the volume of the video on desktop, forcing you to open the volume dialog box and either turn down your whole computer or every window in your browser.

Almost all of these APIs still require a user to approve their use in the browser for a given origin.

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Okay, and?

I replied to the wrong comment, I meant to reply to the "what's the downside?" comment.

I walk past this site multiple times a week. It's currently partially derelict land and a car park. Not sure which nature you're talking about.

How about just making it a good old fashioned nature park? Vegas and Dubai are plenty enough for building extravagant vanity projects.

And if the private owner of the space cannot extract value from it without degrading the quality of life of the surrounding area's residents, maybe there should be laws to give it back to the public. This would also tackle "investors" that buy cheap properties amass and leave them to rot, until they can make enough profit from gentrification.

Let me clear, as a local to Stratford (not within direct line of sight to where this would be though), I don't particularly support this project. But, there's already a fair amount of green space around the Olympic park.

I wasn't talking about this project at all, I was responding to GP's sarcastic assertion that there's "always some kind of rare amoeba whose habitat would be impacted."

I don't think I buy that argument very much, though. You can do all of those things in the same way you would have done them before the advent of smartphones - snail mail (or use a library/personal computer to check emails), visit a bank in branch, send text messages to friends on a flip phone. Heck, even most vaccination systems I've seen worldwide have the option of a printed QR code proof.

I won't disagree that these things are massively inconvenient compared to doing it all though a smartphone, but it's far from impossible.