That’s gotta be a large part of it. 5 years ago, most bots used true user-agents to identity themselves. Today, on my work sites, about 98% of bot traffic (traffic coming from data centers) use slightly out of date Chrome user-agents. So we just block all data centers.

Between his time as a “business” man, his tariffs, his wars, his stupid merch, his crypto scams, and all his other grifts, he is the single largest thief to ever roam the planet.

Every time the Federal Reserve refused to lower rates because of whatever lunatic move he did most recently, he’s stealing your mortgage, costing you more in rent, stealing yours jobs, your savings, and your opportunities.

There’s a special place in hell for those Republicans. It’s always the Pedo-Conservatives who want that.

I’ll compile my own linux kernel before I install OS level age verification.

The only answer is regulation. We need laws that say, if you own a device, you can do anything you want to it, including wipe it, hack it, resell it, etc.

If they want to control your device, or lease it to you provided you pay a monthly fee, etc, they need to say “Lease”, “Rent” or similar, not buy.

And they shouldn’t be able to void your warranty for it - voids should be limited to the parts of the device you mess with. Like, if you flash your phone, they should be able to say, we can’t give you support, including how to re-install the original OS…but if your battery fails and it shocks you, they should have to replace the battery under a warranty.

We also need laws that say, if you pay for a device, that device itself, can’t have ads. So like, when talking about Android TV boxes, they can put recommendations on the homepage, but not ads, and those recommendations can’t be paid. Now, if you open youtube, they can make you watch ads.

he should be thrilled they took pictures of his, standing, clothed and not face first in a puddle of his own piss, spilled booze and vomit.

I would say in design and usability but yes, services too. Tuta has mail and calendar and started a basic drive app that’s internal alpha stage. Proton has Simplelogin, drive, VPN, Meet, Docs, Sheets, Pass (Which is truly awesome), Lumo AI (Meh) and Wallet.

Tuta feels very unpolished. Like the half backed internal apps I build for myself or coworkers when I don’t have to release it to the public. Nothing is refined.

I pay for both.

Burn it all down. Lock the CEOs in before you do.

I can’t wait for the the renewal where the price doubles, the speed is limited to protect the battery, the privacy policy changes and they share your browsing data in real time, sell your fingerprints and facial recognition data and give you kne day to renew at the higher price or cancel without penalty like those cocksuckers at Adobe do.

The exec behind that needs to be homeless

Exactly. Maybe AI will help us return to darwinism.

This is what I’m hoping for. That way, when the dumbest person we know copies content from ChatGPT, we’ll see the ads too and know they’re a dumbass!