I don't understand. I use Microsoft and Google, I assume about 99% of people on this forum use at least one of those. Why is their known data collection better than this? Your data is used the minute you connect, the minute you buy something anywhere. This is the 21st century. Please be glad you don't live in countries where your data is used to control what you have access to, whom you can meet, where you can travel or what you eat.

Why should creating art with the same software is suddenly so depressing as opposed to say, last month or last year? I am assuming people who post here bought at least once something from this site--why is it suddenly so bad? Why do we believe everything posted by people hiding behind Internet anonymity without citing actual pages/ sources etc.

What's going on??