My field is propped up by various governments. My paycheck is a combination of sales, bailouts, and loan forgiveness. I also make lots of money.
Should I be in favor of cronyism?
I actually take the other side despite getting paid by them. These companies/Management made terrible decisions and continue to make terrible decisions. Instead of selling and replacing managers we are burdened with zombie companies.
I'm a believer that these kind of issues should be solved at the consumers end.
I haven't built a web browser, but I built a bot and it's somewhat doable to avoid getting tracked.
A browser could feed a fake user agent and format the browser to be the correct size. After that I believe it's only IP address and cookies which are easy enough to be blocked.
It even defeats the CSS tracking mentioned. "Oh someone downloaded image 6374tracker.png, but they were from UAE and are using Firefox" and are never seen again.
My only weakness on this subject is the low level headers, anyone familiar?
>Apple uses a lot of customer hostile behaviors nowadays
Nowadays? Apple has been doing anti-consumer behavior for multiple decades. I remember only allowing purchased itunes music being exported in their specific format.
You'd have to burn them to a CD and rip it back to a useable format.
This isn't new, any educated consumer is well aware of how Apple plays.
>SpaceX isn't going to go public, possibly because it's a very long-term endeavor, and his goal is to go to Mars, not make huge profits.
I think it's due to the nature of being a military contractor.
Being public means that Americans can be upset our taxes are going to a billionaire. But private, there's deniability of how much money is coming from taxpayers.