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If this is something you do often, you might consider Firefox with the multi-account containers extension: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

It allows unique/isolated profiles on a per-tab basis.

I’ve found it great for work, for the many things that require me to be logged into both the me@example.com and me@example.onmicrosoft.com accounts simultanously, to manage MS 365 things. But restricting social media to an isolated profile, multiple Google/Microsoft/whatever accounts, these are all possible.

Make Asbestos Great Again?

Yeah… about that. It would appear the company was founded after the book was published, which makes it so, so much worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid’s_Tale “Publication date: April 17, 1985”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead_Sciences “Founded: June 22, 1987”

I clicked on this, and it’s immediately asking for my email. No big surprises there.

This however is the copy:

EXCLUSIVE
Unlock your surprise
Sign up to receive your surprise and start sleeping better today

With the big glowing confirm button labelled “Get my surprise” and the dark pattern barely visible skip link “I don’t want a surprise”.

I was aware of the existence of these things but had never paid them the slightest mind, this is just… ick.

I have a plastic desk toy of this dumpster.

https://100soft.shop/products/dumpster-fire-vinyl-figure

Truly an object worthy to represent these troubled times.

In my extended circle of acquaintences and colleagues I know around eight people with folding phones. I have seen ONE of them ever use it open - even in situations where you’d think it’d be great, like sitting at the tables in the office kitchen at lunchtime browsing, almost never used unfolded.

It seems like it should be a great idea, but for the majority of people the majority of the time, it appears to be an otherwise normal phone that’s just twice as thick as it needed to be. One of the owners of these devices - who had it bought for them rather than choosing it themself - made that exact complaint to me, in fact.

That said, don’t let this put you off. If it’s a thing you think you would like, the technology has definitely progressed to the point where the more glaring issues (of reliability, mostly) have been worked out. But definitely spend some time playing with one in a store before committing if you can.