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They lost access to everything american, including Visa and Mastercard. It's in french and maybe not the best source but it's not paywalled :
https://www.tf1info.fr/international/nous-sommes-attaques-le...
> "Payments are mostly cancelled," he continued, "as almost all cards issued by banking institutions in Europe are either Visa or Mastercard, which are American companies."
They are not completely debanked since they can go to the bank and withdraw cash, but it's a crippling situation to be in.
Did the US won the war alone ? who used the weapons ?
Fairphone do manage to keep up tho. The Fairphone 3 was updated to android 13 a few month ago.
https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/997918043739...
The idea was that, given a significant enough amount of people turning it on, advertisers would take notice of it and react accordingly. If it's on by default it is meaningless.
It's a tool that enable users to send a message to advertisers that they are not okay with their practices. It was designed this way. It says you are okay with ads but not with the tracking.
> There are no incentives to do so, and no punishment or repercussions if they don't.
Except for adblock. If the only option to avoid tracking is to block ads, then that is what will be used.
All of the "last-kilometer" connectivity is owned by the historical telephony operator France Telecom (also known as Orange after its privatization), which has the obligation to rent it to other providers. You can switch between all country-wide ISPs as you wish.