Chiquita and Nestlé come to mind. Within tech industry, I’d say Amazon and probably Microsoft are worse as well, and there’s probably a ton of potentially even worse companies lurking in the shadows outside the top of the economic food chain.

I’m worrying that whatever gets sold (Chrome or Android) might end up in the hands of someone even more scummy than Google.

Yeah, totally makes sense, “they” attacked IA one month in advance before the elections, knowing that IA would spend around a month rewriting and improving their site code until the Save Page option would be enabled again (unless IA themselves are a part of the plot???), so that news articles could be “edited on the fly” (with what result?) until the election day, while other similar web archiving services such as archive.is would keep working just fine.

there’s only seven stories in the world

There isn’t. That’s a completely nonsensical statement, no serious scholar of litearture/film/etc. would claim something of the sort. While there have been attempts to analyse the “basic” stories and narrative structures (Propp’s model of fairy tales, Greimas’ actantial model, Campbell’s well-known hero’s journey), they’re all far from universally applicable or satisfying.

How can a website be trendy if nobody could use it until now?

Well I’ve seen a few in passing. They just look like any other AI “art”/porn.

Do people actually enjoy seeing those pictures? I can sort of understand generating them for shock value, but finding them erotic or pleasing??

That’s not how sarcasm works.

Unironically Facebook is fairly reliable for what you’re describing. It nags you with a login popup regularly, but beyond that everything important is readable even without an account.

At this point I’m impressed by how much effort Twitter devs must’ve have put into making the site shittier and less accessible.

By the time you finished making this snarky meme, you could’ve set up a program to OCR a book yourself.

The original Firefox (originally called Firebird) logo be like: