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You know it's irrational and you still believe it. That's called brainwashing - time to turn off the news for a while and go outside.

It's almost as if they're intelligent creatures with lives, personalities and desires of their own, totally undeserving of the cruelty inflicted on them. It's a shame people have been conditioned to not see it.

Complete nonsense. The fact I disabled OnStar on my vehicles, for example, is an interesting point of conversation only when I bring them in for an oil change. They happily show me the diagnostic codes it produces and could not care less about it, nor could I.

The opposite of what it purports to do.

That will definitely prevent them from driving.

The bar to write secure desktop software is significantly higher than for browser extensions. Especially with all the Electron crap these days, you're one XSS away from full-blown RCE.

> That insulates you from the risk of a malicious update.

It also insulates you from critical security updates. Managing your own security is not without its risks.

DNS blocking has not been effective for probably close to a decade, with domain-fronting, L7 adware/spyware, fingerprinting and other trickery. Parent comment correctly characterized the lack of UBO as a net security/privacy loss.

There's a handful of trustworthy extensions like uBlock Origin, otherwise any with full DOM access are basically a browser rootkit.

Don't forget there's also ~100 billion additional creatures needlessly existing: all breathing, consuming and polluting.

https://www.humanesociety.org/blog/more-animals-ever-922-bil...

Plastic bans only work at making corporations more money.

Hilarious. Wait until people think critically about what solar panels and lithium ion batteries (for their "green" EVs and homes) demand has done to the environment.

> Still seems like a shift from single-use (well, often double-use) plastic bags to multiple-reuse bags is a net win.

Is this based on your feelings/sentiment, or do you have some hard data to back up this baseless assumption?

> In a company of that size it should be actually impossible for a transaction like this to occur without clearly documented processes to ingest, review, authorise and pay transactions.

Oh, my sweet summer child. The larger the organization, the more dysfunctional it becomes.

See How this scammer used phishing emails to steal over $100 million from Google and Facebook

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/phishing-email-scam-stole-10...