If there’s one issue, ever, that you should be at least a little “both sides” on, it’s this one.

There’s no way you can honestly argue only one side of this.

Wanna bet? There are ways to frog in a boiling pot this. And chrome isn’t the only browser that will support blocking Firefox. (They’ll argue Chromium is not Google, only Chrome).

https://takeout.google.com

Download your data while you still can.

Yeah, this is probably the way I’d go about it. Dedicated hard drive, separate/no network access, no access to other files. Who cares if it is malware if it can’t get to anything.

The four day head start thing being bullshit was a good point. But yeah, I’m not likely to pirate an executable any time soon.

If you’re using Windows, just make sure file extensions are visible and that your file isn’t named Movie.mp4.exe

I know someone who’s pirated books and then donated directly to the author or signed up for their Patreon for a few months.

And they’ll have to do it without a network of billions of phones helping them.

You do you. But they really only violate your privacy if they’re following you. And that’s what the warning is about.