Actually, I wouldn’t mind if the Pinkertons were replaced by AI. Would serve them right.

It’s more likely to be out of work security guards in their police cosplay.

At this point ad blocking is more about security and optimization than stopping ads themselves. If a site wants to run some banner ads to pay for costs, I have nothing against it, but once Javascript is involved, that just becomes a vulnerability for attack.

Also, websites that bury their content in layers of overlay and popup ads with loud audio and several unrelated videos can go fuck themselves.

Because they are at the end of their growth phase and have entered their squeeze until dead phase.

The biggest risk would be IoT devices.

The rebuttal wasn’t as comforting as some are making it out to be. They seem to be more interested in the semantics of it not being a backdoor tied to a specific product, which appears to be true.

Rather it is a potential for vulnerability that exists in all wireless implementation, which seems to me to be a bigger issue.

Censorship is not just a concept of law.

Steroids aren’t speech.

It’s not illegal for the other party to include it, but it is absolutely censorship by any definition of the word.

Okay, but what’s the bad part here? That’s just a very generic overview of how donating works.

Need to start spoofing user agent strings again.

The drama isn’t exactly their fault. There are a lot of rich organizations that want them to cease to exist. Most of which want track you online and/or shove ads down your throat.

Archive the physical copy for the inevitable shutdown. No one can stop an old disc player plugged into a dumb tv.

They might be using a third party authenticator to control access. My own job does that. Though I’ve been told we’re moving to Outlook soon.

Subway got in trouble for their subs not being a full twelve inches. They tried to claim that ‘footlong’ was just a trademark and didn’t mean they’d be an actual foot long.

You do realize that the act of protesting predates the invention of the phone by a long way, right?

I don’t believe Bluesky is a part of the government. Legally, they are allowed to censor as they please on their own platform.

In that case, not at all is the right choice until AMD can figure out that frankly brain dead easy thing.