The king is still head of state, so I'm okay with that.

Too late. That was already a thing in 1970.

You're right we should allow business to abuse monopoly positions, infringe on privacy and not give a damn about the negative social impacts. Oh and funnel money into tax havens. /s

Cases like this, make me feel that there should be laws against NDAs in the context of customer settlements.

But it feels proudly like an American way of doing business :'(

Well, they won't be able to calculate how much the USA is giving up to other countries. Then again, given the current administration and hallucinating AI, they can just make stuff up?

Getting policy right is hard. Sometimes you need to prepare a mindset change or test out an approach, though certainly there are things that fail miserably due to unintended consequences. See this like developing software, but instead it is policy.

What will be interesting is how long before the W3C comes up with a solution that can work across browsers and websites, and then how long before it gets adopted by browsers and websites.

They probably did their research, for what people would pay, especially taking into account crazy fashion choices and the FOMO factor.

Though if Google is setting "ninety-day countdown to full disclosure regardless", then they are essentially pressuring a group og volunteers to change focus and deal with that problem. That's the spiteful part. If Google cared about the open source it benefits from, they could set aside some devs or even provide some financial help to deal with this,

A company like Google could even contribute quality fixes, but by humans. Asking volunteers to solve a problem that the multi-million dollar company is benefiting from is cheap and spiteful, especially if said company provides no value to the project.

Maybe this is incentive to help design data centres that are less power demanding, such as using computers that use ARM and are better with how their code is implemented?

Then combine that with roof top renewables.

This is a hard problem, but if the economic incentive is there, then someone will want to address it.

You are also making an assumption that it is easy to find alternative store fronts for this content, especially when people arenâ(TM)t wanting to pay for yet another streaming platform

You forgot about the hallucinating AIs, which while they can provide useful information, are prone to making shit up.

Can you provide examples where this is the case? Right now it feels like you are discomforted by the idea of something that challenges "'straight' white male privilege"?

Please explain to us what you think DEI means and its intent? Also tell us you don’t think you should have an advantage simply because you are a white male.