Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
Personally, I disagree with the first and agree with the latter. I have a Nest Hub, and there are no ads on that. But I would still urge the redditor and myself to get acquainted with Home Assistant instead of bothering with the offerings from Google and Amazon.
I would recommend https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ for reaching out directly to your country’s representatives.
I used it today to make a template, that I could then edit to fit my writing style, and send from my own email provider really easily, because the site also let’s you copy the email addresses of your representatives in one click.
But the site will also let you send a pre-made message with no effort really needed from you. I just had some time and energy today, so went the extra mile.
I also really like how it tracks the stance of your representative, and you can read their response to the issue. Most of my country’s representatives are currently on vacation, but I did get an answer back from one of them, which was pretty cool (Very informally written, with an included “Sent from my iPhone” signature, hahaha).
Is it on purpose that your account has the bot tag on? Made me do a double take, when I saw your comment, haha.
When no one has saved a snapshot yet, it asks me if I want to, and I tell it yes, and then it creates a snapshot, and I can see the site. Is that what you mean, when you say it fails? That you have to say yes to it making a snapshot?
I’ve had really good results with using archive.is - Just throw that in front of a link with a forward slash and you’re good to go.
Like archive.is/https://example.com
Never had an issue yet. There was one time where a page looked a bit weird on my phone, and I couldn’t see the very last paragraph of the article. But enabling desktop mode in my browser fixed it.
Is that a common feature of third-party apps? I don’t recall hearing about that before, when reading about these types of apps.