It’s a new bottom sheet photo picker introduced by Google recently. You’re probably using the generic file picker before, no way to get rid of it unfortunately.

I think they made it as an excuse to enforce scoped storage, at least for photos.

Mostly just thinking about streaming services on the eye patch part(seriously, screw region and VPN lock).

Personally I’m not that against ads, the issue is how annoying they often gets, and I have a bad feeling if they are actively seeking maximum ad revenue.

Short-term, absolutely.

Long-term? Bad product experience is why people bought those eye patches, or straight up moved to another platform.

All complete browsers are big. The small ones typically don’t have their own engine built-in.

iOS browsers all use Safari’s WebKit as their engine, so they’ll probably be smaller than their Android counterparts.

Some pages don’t have overscroll rubberbanding.