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Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!

December 1, 2025 Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!2025-12-02T22:53:09+01:00 21 Comments android, apps, dictionaries, eurocrap, google, Google_is_shit, Justice, SPECIAL

I just lost €12.99 because of Google Play Store, despite having in theory many more rights than the Americans, as the responsible entity in my case is Google Commerce Limited,…

ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “🥳” Dec 5, 01:28
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “UPDATE: I found a way to disable Windows Defender in Win11!” Dec 5, 01:17
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “My crappy usb drive will give up on me before my OS hopping tendencies, I’m sure. Oh well.” Dec 5, 00:49
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “That sounds painful! May the experience give you much joy, brother. It’s still windows though, so there’s a ceiling to…” Dec 5, 00:47
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Win10 IoT LTSC is installed on the HP 1-liter PC. I wanted to have a Win11 experience, to learn new…” Dec 5, 00:42
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “May I know what made you move away from Win 10 IoT ltsc? I’m still drawn towards that even though…” Dec 5, 00:41
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Yeah I saw schneegan’s xml generator page mentioning it as their inspiration.” Dec 5, 00:30
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Oh, I should try what Rudy Mens says here!” Dec 5, 00:15
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “This is irrelevant now. I don’t want to debloat a standard Win11 ISO. I used an IoT ISO, so there…” Dec 5, 00:12
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I used it with 25H2 iso. And yes it was a bit complicated for me as well but this Pureinfotech…” Dec 5, 00:08
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “It’s complicated and I never do unattended/OEM installations. Also, you might have installed an older version of Win11. OK, it…” Dec 5, 00:00
ConEst on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “If someone really wants to disable windows defender, I found the best way to do it was using schneegans’s unattended…” Dec 4, 23:55
Béranger on Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea: “Adineauri, „Mircea Badea chiar el” și-a exprimat profunda adeziune și nețărmurita apreciere (deci „a aprobat pozitiv”) proaspăta inițiativă a lui…” Dec 4, 23:25
Lucian on Marele Război și Marea Unire, povestite de Mircea Badea: “Nda, chiar misto videoclipul. Merci ca ai postat, ca eu nu ma mai uit la nimic stiri sau emisiuni (din…” Dec 4, 22:40
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “A huge collection of crap, most of them being both in copyright infringement and outdated (e.g. AHD3 and AHD4 but…” Dec 4, 18:52
ConEst on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “I’ve found some pretty good ones here.” Dec 4, 18:35
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “I disliked GoldenDict ~15 years ago, and I stopped caring about it. It’s mostly used with pirated dictionary databases that…” Dec 3, 23:28
ConEst on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “I’ve been using GoldenDict for a while now and it’s been serving me quite well. Can manage my dictionary collection…” Dec 3, 22:10
Béranger on 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…: “Here’s a potentially useful option in LXQt that was suggested to me and which might not be offered by other…” Dec 3, 18:37
Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “And this is what happened: Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100.” Dec 3, 16:45
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Two small updates (with screenshots): Update 1: If it was “Offered by Google Commerce Ltd,” then Google should reimburse me,…” Dec 2, 22:54
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “OK, so the above site (Windows 7 Games for Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 8) offers: ❶…” Dec 2, 18:22
ng6333 on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Windows 7 Games package that is compatible with Windows 11/10, other classic apps, such as WordPad, classic Calculator, Sticky Notes,…” Dec 2, 17:36
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Too much is too much! I couldn’t stand anymore the lines hidden by the navigation bar in Antony Lewis’ apps…” Dec 2, 00:19
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Thanks, this might be useful to other people, but: (1) I don’t use Nvidia. (2) I only needed “the latest…” Dec 2, 00:00
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I know of all those pieces of software, and more, but I decided to simplify my life. Some of them…” Dec 1, 23:58
disguisedcr0w on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Oh, and another one: I also suggest StationDrivers & manual driver installation. Most of the time, this isn’t necessary, as…” Dec 1, 23:58
disguisedcr0w on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I suggest a few other user application software compared to the ones you’ve mentioned, such as: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher, NTLite (DISM…” Dec 1, 23:54
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “(As I am unable to respond directly to your last comment, I am replying here.) Dans les deux : Achats…” Dec 1, 22:58
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Too much just to have the thesaurus added.” Dec 1, 22:52
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Collins English Dictionary for iPhone. There is a more complete, and more expensive, version: https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/collins-dictionary-thesaurus/id926221123” Dec 1, 22:50
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “1. Merriam-Webster has (American) audio for most entries. 2. Smartphones are for teens. Try using a computer more often! 🤡…” Dec 1, 22:26
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “(The paying one only adds audio pronunciations.) Yes. Exactly. So, it could perhaps be useful for a “foreigner” to check…” Dec 1, 22:24
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “There’s actually the other way around. Chambers, being a British brand, they always use “-ise” in print! In the Chambers…” Dec 1, 22:20
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Yes. In both, by default, I only had the second one enabled, “Hide in suggestions”. In the thesaurus, but not…” Dec 1, 22:13
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “By the way, are these WordWeb any good? I only have the 2 Chambers. Yes. Sort of. Stuck in the…” Dec 1, 22:04
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Apple is much more tolerant. Yes. By the way, are these WordWeb any good? I only have the 2 Chambers.…” Dec 1, 21:57
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “In Antony Lewis’s apps, make sure you disable the “decency filter”:” Dec 1, 21:35
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “It doesn’t matter. 3 months is “fresh” enough. The version numbers don’t need to be the same in Android vs…” Dec 1, 21:29
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “Antony Lewis constantly updates the apps (“compatibility fixes”): the apps are all at versions 6.x, and recently updated All of…” Dec 1, 21:25
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “The two Google employees resemble chatbots rather than real people. They were real people, but they have predefined answers to…” Dec 1, 20:18
HAL on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “The two Google employees resemble chatbots rather than real people. Some people might prefer to go along with more “sensible”…” Dec 1, 20:11
Béranger on Google Play Store is committing highway robbery and should be shut down!: “One more post that nobody will understand because everyone has ADHD these days, but I already added a few more…” Dec 1, 15:16
System Administrator on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Totally fair! We have to use what works well for us. As for your other thoughts, for better or worse,…” Dec 1, 01:12
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I’m happy for you, but it would be too much trouble for me. Random notes and questions: 1. I still…” Dec 1, 00:57
System Administrator on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I’ve been running Void on a laptop for quite a while now; unlike a server, which might be able to…” Dec 1, 00:48
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Thanks. But, to me, Void is little more than an experiment and unsuited for one’s daily driver on the desktop/laptop.…” Nov 30, 23:42
System Administrator on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “I recently switched from Windows to Linux and, at this time, I’m using Void. While I originally tried the granddaddy,…” Nov 30, 23:37
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Nah, Linux on the desktop (read: laptop) is not exactly pain-free or hassle-free. It might still take a couple of…” Nov 30, 19:17
System Administrator on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Wow! I appreciate the extensive break down, but what a major PITA! Thanks for reminding me why I left Windows…” Nov 30, 19:14
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Kaspersky Standard switched to Kaspersky Free right at the end of the setup if I did not want to use…” Nov 30, 11:34
Laurențiu on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Hi! I was a KAV Free user until all people said is a no-no. But I still have the account……” Nov 30, 10:09
Alexandre Dubois on It ain’t no freedom, and it’ll be even less of it: “You have a brain and use it. I love people who use their brains. I feel less lonely. Thank you…” Nov 27, 20:22
Béranger on Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing: “I’m not a fan of running AI models locally on low-end systems (and I hate Nvidia), but 4 weeks ago…” Nov 27, 12:39
Béranger on eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!: “eMag continuă să afișeze falsuri ordinare pe marketplace, iar cum vânzarea se face prin eMag.ro, sunt complici la înșelătorie! Dar…” Nov 26, 22:01
Béranger on ChatGPT și CCR: Deci așa, cam în vreo 15 ani…: “Curtea Constituțională decide cine trăiește și cine moare. CCR a respins criteriul oncologic pentru retragerea integrală a fondurilor din pensiile…” Nov 25, 22:19
Jonney Bonehead on Microsoft’s lawsuits alone should have made us ditch them: “Why does all of society put up with these goons? In a saner world these deranged tech CEOs and their…” Nov 24, 20:23
Béranger on Should we stop wanting to hack-install Win11 on older CPUs?: “This is mostly about smartphones, not just computers, but it’s terribly offensive and dumb: Americans are holding onto devices longer…” Nov 24, 15:12
Béranger on SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!: “And a tiny addition: Merriam-Webster censors!” Nov 24, 00:01
Béranger on On the AI Apocalypse: ARTE documentaries & NYT interviews: “Peter Thiel at “Interesting Times” with Ross Douthat: — On YT: A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough?…” Nov 23, 17:21