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No but once ChatGPT starts threatening Google's revenue model, maybe they will start putting effort into improving their drastically deteriorating search engine.

it would be polite to disclose this in your original post (although it was fairly obvious anyway)

Regular YouTube videos on mobile also don't allow you to change the volume separate to the phone's 'master volume'. I don't think this is a TikTok/YouTube specific thing - you just don't see separate volume sliders on mobile like you would on a video playing on desktop.

Almost all of these APIs still require a user to approve their use in the browser for a given origin.

Okay, and?

Let me clear, as a local to Stratford (not within direct line of sight to where this would be though), I don't particularly support this project. But, there's already a fair amount of green space around the Olympic park.

I walk past this site multiple times a week. It's currently partially derelict land and a car park. Not sure which nature you're talking about.

I don't think I buy that argument very much, though. You can do all of those things in the same way you would have done them before the advent of smartphones - snail mail (or use a library/personal computer to check emails), visit a bank in branch, send text messages to friends on a flip phone. Heck, even most vaccination systems I've seen worldwide have the option of a printed QR code proof.

I won't disagree that these things are massively inconvenient compared to doing it all though a smartphone, but it's far from impossible.