SaltySalamander

Epic Games is also a private company

Considering the majority of stakeholders in Epic are all public companies, I disagree with this notion. Tim Sweeney owns a bit over 40%, the rest is held by:

Tencent Sony Disney Kirkbi (Lego)

Not very private, I say.

You must be pretty young, because back in the dark days of spinning HDDs a computer would take 5+ minutes to boot.

Those storage freezers are doing nothing the vast majority of the time. Not really a fair comparison.

during the program

Hence the qualifier.

You generally can view a post w/o an account, just no comments associated with that post.

such as how is the traffic on my route home, and why am I stuck in traffic, and how many miles ahead of me is the fucking accident

Any maps app, especially Google Maps, would do this as well.

Eh, they just don't want my money. I had a Netflix account back in the day. Ad-free and most everything was there. They've all fallen so far. Storage is pretty damn cheap these days, and torrents are a-plenty.

There were ads on cable channels as far back as I remember. We got cable in '85 or '86. HBO didn't have ads during the program, but every other channel sure did.

They've literally been doing this for over a decade, at least. There were always some shows on Hulu that the "ad-free" plan didn't include as ad-free, though they usually only showed ads at the beginning and the end of the show.

Snowden took a flight from Hong Kong to Moscow on June 23, 2013, and he's been in Russia ever since. Don't know who told you he went to Russia in '22, he's been there for a long time.

Are you a bot?