I see two three pin 3.5mm stereo plugs (one of them color coded for the headphones and one for the mic), and zero 4-pin combo plugs?

Enforcing DRM has a big downside: it paints a massive target on the DRM implementation, and it will likely end up getting broken.

No, the network effect is too strong. Deleting WhatsApp is cutting off the primary/only way to contact many friends (in countries where it’s the primary messenger), and a mild form of “abandon everything and go live in a monastery”.

Why would that be a problem? We already often only use the last two digits to refer to the year, that’ll probably not change.

uBlock Origin explicitly advises against this. If it’s the only content blocker it doesn’t currently have issues with YouTube, if you have multiple you’ll probably hit the “disable your adblocker” warning.

The first three are using identical techniques so combining them is of very limited benefit. They’re mostly there to cover software that doesn’t have an ad blocker.

I’d stick with just ublock origin.

Steam is full of anime porn games.

For a long time there wasn’t even a way to filter them meaningfully, as porn and gore were in the same category. So you either had the default filter and couldn’t see some of the most violent games, or you turned the filter off and every listing turned into 90% porn games. I think they realized that and now have separate categories for “adult because gory” and “tits”.

Since you already received the genuine answers:

You need to be really careful. The expiration date isn’t exact, but after that, they’ll quickly ferment and turn into Surströmming on the inside.

Oh, I absolutely understand that a lot of tracking is stil possible. But in practice, it’s usually handled by third parties via a script loaded from a third party domain, because doing any of the smarter stuff would require a) a competent IT team b) the marketing team talking to them constantly.

Much easier to just slap another tracker into Google Tag Manager.

Of course this doesn’t help against tech companies. YouTube, Facebook, Reddit etc. will most likely track your views based on the requests, which you can’t avoid. But this takes care of 90% of the tracking, and most importantly, it removes the “everyone tracking you across every site you visit” aspect of the ad surveillance industry.

uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.

Can’t fingerprint my machine if your fingerprinting script never loads.

There is an universally available subscription that applies to all services, costs $0/month, refuses donations, and is called uBlock Origin.

Haven’t noticed any of the YouTube issues either so far.

20% of their revenue comes from the EU, almost all of it from ads. I’d argue that complying with the law would cost them more than a quarter of the EU ads revenue, without affecting their costs much -> that’d be 5% of global revenue. Breaking the law still pays.

Also, how do you conclude that 448 million people paying 90 EUR per year, for a total of 40 billion EUR, wouldn’t offset a 4.66 billion USD fine?

If the fine was 4% of global revenue every month, sure. So far it looks like it’d be every 3-5 years though…

Just seeing the renaming bullshit they pulled off (really? renaming an existing project AND renaming a different thing to the old name?!?) is enough to avoid both projects. Anyone who creates confusion like that will also make other unsound decisions.

A monumental amount, or a tiny tax if the abuse doubles their profit…

If you store them separately (or use U2F/WebAuthn/security keys), yes - it gives you some protection you if your password manager gets hacked.

If you just store them in the same password manager - no (except that some sites require it or create additional pains in the ass like forced e-mail based 2fa unless you have 2fa already).

I guess it could be done as a Bandersnatch-style experiment on one streaming platform, but it’s so far from the regular way things are done that it seems unlikely.

It works well enough to be shown for a few seconds at a keynote for static pictures in some cases. It won’t yet work well enough to be permanently known as the official “remastered version” for moving video consistently.

Now, someone uploading a watchable version on YouTube? That will happen in the next years if it hasn’t already. But that version would be widely ridiculed if released officially because something, somewhere will be off and fans will notice.

As harsh as it is, the color aspect definitely plays into it, but part of it is also expectations. Israel is expected be a developed place that’s at peace and not committing genocide. “Country X in Africa is in a state of {war, civil war, Warlord war, genocide, famine}” happens so frequently that it feels like “county X in Africa is currently stable and prosperous” would be newsworthy. That’s probably not reality, but that’s common perception, I think.

Adding imagery that reliably looks good is currently beyond what AI can do, but it’s likely going to become possible eventually. It’s fiction, so the AI making stuff up isn’t a problem.

Upscaling is already something AI can do extremely well (again, if you’re ok with hallucinations).

That’s why I provided the ranges I was able to find.

Countries with resources won’t have a reason to “devolve into war”. Countries without resources won’t affect much beyond that country. Why would logistics get disrupted?

I also think you’re overestimating the effect. Optimistic studies claim something like 8% impact in 2100, pessimistic 18% in 2050, which is a tiny effect per year.

Again, humanity deals well with slow changes. We’re mostly talking about “the economy grows by one percentage-point less quickly than it would without climate change” for the worst affected countries in the absolutely worst long term estimates (something like -65% by 2100), and a fraction of that for most countries. Just to be clear, we’re not talking about “x% less than now”, we’re talking about “x% less than it would have been without climate change”. It’s likely that over time, despite climate change, the standard of living even in those countries will continue to increase, unless they, as you said, devolve into (internal/local) wars for mostly unrelated reasons.