And Google is trying to make sure that's possible.

Does it have the ability to selectively stop/play animations?

There's an extension called Gif Stopper.

Is Iron a Scam? Yes

The article title appears to be too harsh, but basically somebody compared the Iron source code to the Chromium source code and found that the only real changes were to disable 3 items that were already user-configurable within Chromium.

Here's another article that suggests that the actual reason for the Iron fork was just to make money (using Google ads on their website) by taking advantage of peoples' fears about Google: The story of Iron

So if you really are worried about Google, you should also worry about the misinformation being spread by the creators of Iron. If you want to have access to the full source, I suggest installing Chromium instead of Iron.

I've seen this suggested before. The media industry is *small* compared to Google et al. It's amazing that they have so much control in Congress. Google, IBM, Microsoft, etc. should each just buy one or two media companies and be done with it.

;-)

I'm due to get one of those monitors at the end of this month.

Somehow, I don't think my wife is going to have the same reaction.