A contact form is a really bad argument for not making the rest of the website static first.

I don't think they disagree? They said that okay, that doesn't perfectly fit into the static site philosophy but he can hack something together. Which is correct.

Occam's razor is about the simplest solution often being the correct one.

Hanlon's razor is about not assuming malice, which makes no sense when applied to faceless mega-corporations or even random strangers where you know conflicting motives exist.

Microsoft has been breaking trust since the 90s. If they have any left then perhaps it's not as easy to lose as you say.

That's because you can ignore when the people complain as long as its not too many at once.

> I think it was him who suggested that if Microsoft sent a sales rep around to shit on peoples lawns, it would take at most a year until they start defending it as the inevitable cost of technological progress.

They would inevitably say that Linux was not viable because you had to buy your own fertilizer.

You don't seriously believe that a company's PR release is the same as the truth or what the people inside that company believe. And no, they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt after the umpteenth time that their "mistake" caused an outrage.

I would not agree that Android has been a net positive for society at all. And neither as Chrome.

People did share their cat pics before centralized ad supported platforms and I would definitely not see that centralization as a "benefit".

Why do we need an alternative?

How do you know? The point of most ads isn't just to get you to make an immediate purchase but to make that brand part of your active memory so you will be more predisposed to choose it when you see it available. There are some ads that don't even mention any specific product at all.