Google Pixel

Agreed, although the EU (may) have sped up USB C adoption for the phones, clearly Apple was doing that either way, the writing was on the wall with their other things going that way in prior years along with them always trying to make all their shit use the same stuff.

I'm all for the privacy aspect, when its not undone for themselves, and have all those same benefits as my states privscy laws do all the same stuff, a handful of US states do as well with more being passed every year. Everybody outside the US for some reason only thinks CA has those laws, not the case, but CA is very vocal about it.

Not riled up at all, bit it just gets tiring that while EU people on one end seem to be aware of all the privacy violations happening, then pretend that the GDPR is some holy doctrine that saves them from it all, anybody with an IQ above room temperature knows that's now how it works. Laws give a process for punishment after the fact, they rarely stop anything from happening. No shortage of companies figure out fines from stuff like that as a cost of doing business. We need them, but once you're now "safe" because of them, thats whem you've left reality. If laws worked that way we wouldn't need police or prisons, because there'd be no crime.