I've tried to escape several times with no luck. I've deleted my entire history, views, comments, unsubscribed from channels, you name it. Within a day it looks like I never left.

Yes, they are certainly guilty of sticking their collective heads in the sand. Most but not all of them.

Thank you all for your advice, it is most appreciated and I will put it to good use.

Yeah so I don't see what the issue is. If they gave me stock android from 8 years ago I would still be happy to use it, and most basic users probably wouldn't even know the difference. There are very few features released in the past few years that I couldn't live without. Probably the only notable one I can think of is notification history. Other than that it has been all downhill, like removing the ability to easily record calls, which iphone can do no problem. As it is now I have to use a differnt phoen a a bunch of hacks to get it to work. It's my device, let me assume the risk. Nanny bullshit.

I've never developed on Android, but would it be hard to port most apps to AOSP at this point if the developer wanted to?

Thanks for the explanation. Sorry, I'm new to this platform and I did not even realize you replied until now. Thank you for clearing this up for me.

For us dummies that are just getting started, and most of us are only doing it now because gaming has kept us on Windows, it would be nice if there were a Linux distribution that was singlularly focused on gaming.

Yeah I cut way back on drinking and now I toke a little bit. Having a third thing to rotate in would be a blessing. I just need something at the end of the day to take the edge off about an hour before bed. That's the only time I do anything.

ha I'll do that on a very large app because it pays dividends, but small apps I go in the complete opposite direction.

I refuse to get solar on my house until I can store the energy myself, hopefully this will be available for that soon.

I stopped going when they let Trump campaign from there.

It's competition that is supposed to drive down prices. Doesn't work very well though when you have virtual monopolies and vertically integrated companies to the extent that america has, like Apple and Amazon.