no, its mandatory on sign up.

... privacy.

No phone number, no yahoo or google account for you. Because ... the NSA wants to know you.

> X Watt of energy
Tell us more about your ignorance.

which is no less science. Even more pure, as your observations can be wrong.

> because less pepole means more per capita resources
You're assuming every country has the same ressources, independed from country size and population.

The rest of the article can be skipped. Clickbait.

there are jodel and jaulen, now yikyak ... no new concept.

Chromium is the opensource chrome, that's it. It does not have spyware and not the nasty habit of chrome to mess with your package manager to update by itself (i mean, really WTF?)

you're talking about updates, not upgrades. Debian updates your kernel, chromium, ... and ensures there are no known security bugs. Google upgrades your chromium, fixing bugs and introducing new ones. You see the difference.

no, the real LTS kernel does not get new hardwaresupport. you confuse it with the hardware enablement stack of ubuntu.

OTOH they have NO REASON AT ALL to upgrade. Upgrades can get you into trouble, on kernel updates this means trouble with drivers (ups, i upgraded, now wlan is not working anymore), while staying with a matured kernel which only gets security patches is a good choice.

you can use the debian LTS version of chromium. Where is the problem?

Friday was yesterday, Mr. Troll.

And another book, which tries to disguise an topic, and creates a book, which is neither useful for the topic, nor a readable story. Why?

you're confusing an explanation of (instinctive) behaviour with an excuse for an (intential) behaviour. The tribal thing is nothing desired nowadays, it's only the explanation for the study results.