"I have more than one screwdriver in my lab :)" -- Me too, but my wife gets upset when I call her that.

Eh, lost access to my 5 digit account a long time ago, but mine is still half of his. ;)

They literally have no clue what they're doing, besides trying to stay in the news. These are all within 2 years in chronological order: Ford releases F-150 Lightning: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ford.com%2Ftrucks%2Ff1... Ford F-150 Lighting production halted: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.caranddriver.com%2Fn... Ford Said to Be Planning $25,000 EV: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.caranddriver.com%2Fn... Ford suspends new EV models after further losses : https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.argusmedia.com%2Fja%2F... Ford Announces Investment To Bring Affordable EVs To Market: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2F...

AIxeptionalism? Must be a chinese AI hallucination.

If you CAN'T spot the trades by now, then you never will. They aren't doing it stealthily anymore, just like Trump isn't TRYING to look like he cares about the constitution or the law.

That slogan was the canary in the mine. Once it was dead....

Considering this ENTIRE thing is about Google allowing apps to pass to third party gateways for payments???? It means Google CAN'T mark it up after it's fixed, so YES.

"when Epic won its Google antitrust lawsuit for a SECOND TIME" - No delays. They had plenty of time, plenty of warning. If they don't get it done, FINE THEM. It's the only language they understand.

I totally see why you posted as an AC. If I tried to say anything near that idiotic, I would have also.

Actually, many of them require either a group policy change or registry edit to disable, some of them have "switches" that only disable "advanced" data collection but still leave on "basic" data collection. To actually kill telemetry, you have to disable services, edit the registry and kill certain auto start tasks, NONE of which are a "simple switch". When you add in Microsoft office, one drive, copilot, etc, it gets even more "fun".

Was it a MacBook???? If it was a pc, what ungodly specs does it have??? I got a couple i9s with RTX 4080s for around $1600 last year...

So.... between automatic for submission of files that the antivirus doesn't recognize, copilot sending all your on computer searches to Microsoft, blocking screenshots being sent to Microsoft, etc etc etc. How many "simple switches" get to the point of "too many" for the average user to 1. know about 2. not become overwhelmed with all the stupidity and give up?

Eh, the last dashcam I had did front, rear and interior recording at 4k with 44khz audio for 12-14 hours a day, so they got pretty beat up.

Another possibility is to setup a rate limiter per IP address. Figure out what would be reasonable for a normal human surfing the site would be and add some padding... 50 queries a minute? (Accounting for all of the CSS, JS, HTML, fonts, etc)

That the justice department sues the ISPs over this and tacks on an extra fee for wasting their time.