The chaser is satire, yes. Australian. They’ve had a long and storied history besides the satire website.

I’m not American and it’s still widely used in my country.

Removal of SMS was a brain-dead move.

SMS is not going anywhere on a global scale and removing SMS meant everyone I had convinced to install signal because it was a drop-in messaging replacement for SMS has immediately stopped using signal. It’s now completely DOA for anyone that isn’t a tech privacy evangelist.

Yeah, but I use YouTube a hell of a lot more, and also I don’t pay in USD.

I was planning to change my sub recently with a VPN but then I realised I already have YouTube premium and YouTube music already has everything I listen to, so I just cancelled.

Nice of them to fully cement my decision.

Not at the moment. I would love to run lineageOS, etc, but I keep buying phones they don’t support, and at this stage, most of the things I used to need rooting for are no longer as necessary for me.

I am shocked. Shocked.