Most people do not like surprises, especially surprises involving their work and/or money. Even if it may be a ‘good’ surprise, many simply do not like them.
How would a surprise day off work? “Surprise, you commuted into work today for no reason! Go home!”
Most workers desire consistency.
Why leave the app installed if you’re done using it?
I can’t recall specific examples but I’ve definitely heard of folks that use patreon as a subscription thing and have the kofi for one-time donations. I don’t know their financials, obviously, but it seems to me that it works.
My guess is that Google recently devalued the negative reviews from the API fiasco because enough time has passed. The reviews are (probably) still there, but those 1 star ratings are no longer in the “average” shown to users.
I can recommend the Samsung Galaxy A25. Has samsung chips (A15 has mediatek) and an audio jack (A35 does not). From what I’ve seen the new models (A16 at least) have all ditched the audio jack.
Decent phone with an okay screen, a headphone jack, and expandable storage.
DDG scrapes their results from Bing, so you are effectively already using Bing. I had to stop using DDG because it plugs MSN and other Microsoft websites so hard.
I think the majority of the time ought to be showing real-world examples of why these things matter.
Stores use your phone’s bluetooth to track your shopping
Smart doorbells will gladly send your footage to police without your permission
Target knew a teenager was pregnant based on shopping habits
Mozilla has a solid breakdown of how your car is spying on you
The goal being to give them something lasting. So next time they interact with this tech they remember what you told them, and maybe start a privacy journey of their own.