phone numbers and email are virtually mandatory nowadays for banking, taxes, and many other things, including dealing with government bureaucracy... so why the hell is not made mandatory by law to be able to go to an email/sim phone service provider's office with your ID/passport/drivers license and be able to recover your account/number?? (allowing users to choose to provide that identification&recovery info when creating their email obviously)
using an ad blocker is the ONLY option to avoid adds. You can pay evilcorp for a subscription/premium account/whatever and they'll still try to force you to watch 10 minutes of adds for a 1 minute video. Fuck them. We own them nothing.
Banksy said it better:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
about youtube being totally unusable on firefox: is it just youtube/google being evil as is customary or also firefox having loads of memory leaks, as its usual too? (plenty of mem leak bugs with video/audio reported over the years, many very recent and still open)
Their target audience is global. Plus, those talks are virtually like a curriculum vitae or portfolio for those speakers. They are only limiting themselves. I speak 5 languages & I would never use anything but English on internet, but that's just me, I prefer to be understood by 99% instead of 1% of my audience when I speak.
in order to use some banking apps you'll need to unroot your phone and modify 2 ROM’s properties text files manually: default.prop and build.prop
/system/build.prop
/system/etc/prop.default