I bet a few years down the road there will be a 'whoops, a sophisticated cyber attack obtained our user tracking database' type of story.
Also: does this mean they'll stop serving ads from 3rd party servers? It reads to me like they will just start collecting their own data, the article doesn't seem to say where the ads will come from.

... there actually are people out there who install advertising extensions? Who in their right minds goes "Oh, gee-whiz, that Internet sure is swell, but I wish it had more ads! Luckily there's an extension for that!"

Except when cloud search breaks and you get no results.

The developer shouldn't load code from 20+ other domains. Nothing erodes my trust in a webpage when I see it fetching javascript from Google and Facebook and Amazon and Cloudflare and Microsoft and a dozen others.

Not as of last week. Tried the second one, and I added in a /f just to be sure.

Still went into update. They are working full-time on plugging all these annoying little "holes" in their OS which give users a semblance of control.

And while you're at that, please inform the Excel team that "CSV" stands for "Comma Separated Values", not "Semicolon Separated Values", as they seem to think.

Instead, Windows Defender allows you to execute an exploit directly: Hole in Windows Defender You don't even have to be an admin!

And even if the petition works, GitHub will then sell to Oracle. GG.

So you're basically saying that systemd is the "Lotus Notes" of init?

And here we are with Font vulnerabilities
This is broken so badly, that no popular (modern) browser can protect you against it. (Excepting, of course, console/text-based browsers, if any on Windows.)

I, for one, welcome our new mechanical overlords.

1. Charge your phone from your body
2. Enjoy this Direct-To-Brain entertainment.
3. Real AI research.
4. Matrix.

ISPs have about as much 'moral obligation' to filter pirate content as do power grid companies to filter electricity used for the same. And it's about as hard to implement, I'd imagine.

Agains AI (npcs) - yes, I agree.
But the article mentions specifically multiplayer games. So the 'virtual character' you're affecting is not just data in a hard drive. There's also someone on the other end of the connection, possibly quite invested in their character.

I very much agree with this. Not to mention that the quality of ads themselves has gone down the drain.