I don't necessarily disagree with you, but provisioning 16-32gb for a production server doesn't seem to be unusual these days and the cost negligible...
It's interesting that the "Privacy Controls" seem to only change how you see the data they've collected about you, but doesn't seem to change how or when they collect data about you. That doesn't sound like privacy control at all!
The submission links to an article at fox13memphis.com. The user I'm replying to suggests a "much better" article at seattletimes.com because it includes content which I'm pointing out is already contained at the submission link.
I was replying to the comment above which pointed out correctly that the order in which the server receives the requests may differ from the order in which they were sent.
Cool! After reading this article I clearly remember buying "Kung-fu shoes" in DTLA/Chinatown as a kid, they were a couple of bucks a piece and probably my favorite shoes at the time.
I also clearly remember they did very little to protect your feet from the black asphalt playground heat in the middle of summer, lol.
In the early 1960s, Dr Pepper promoted the idea of
serving the drink hot with lemon slices in winter.
This idea appeared in the film Blast from the Past
initially set in the early 1960s.
I seem to remember Java Applets & Java "Web start" (or pretty much any browser "plug-in" runtime) causing a fair bit of grief for end-users...