This is likely via silent updates of Google’s Play Services.

Hello! What other measures you take? Use Gemini (the protocol?) Use I2P? Freenet?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Best way to have forgetful username.

I used Facebook on my GOS phone. I thank Meta for refreshing my weariness of big corp.

What??!?

So sad they have such market capture and monopoly on access they can do such unreasonable thing. Those dates are entirely unreasonable.

I’m going to my VCR store and rent the VHS when it is released there – I won’t renew my Skyshowtime subscription on July as I had planned as a protest.

You’re mostly right – those names sound like overkill. However do note I have been using Bitwarden’s Name Generator (random noun + number) and I’ve evolved the scheme a bit ( it is now always ‘user’ and I keep adding numbers until the generated username is available ).