There are jurisdictions where Steam has to explicitly ask every time you open an age-gated page, that’s why they do it and haven’t stored it before. That’ll presumably not change.

DW isn’t the equivalent of the BBC, it would be the equivalent of e.g. Radio Free Europe. DW is entirely funded by the German government, in contrast to the BBC or ARD/ZDF which are independently funded. I’m not saying DW is bad, but it isn’t the equivalent of the BBC.

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Honestly gigabit ethernet is still more than fast enough. I annoyingly have to deal with an iMac G5 that just has a fast ethernet port.