Wilfully concealing it because of Brexit sounds self-defeating

There was a great site with interviews with the engineers who worked on it, but I've lost the link.

Now I'm stuck in emacs, as I only know how to exit vi...

Also, did they write or buy Google Maps?

Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program developed by brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application. After additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a real-time traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005.

For text, there's quite a bit that can be done with Unicode lookalikes and invisible characters that would easily "survive" copying and pasting.

Every time I copy/paste something from a document or a web site, I do it in two steps: copy the original into a plain ASCII text editor to get rid of all formatting and Unicode weirdness, and then copy from the plain text editor into the place where I need it.

I have been doing it like this for years (yes, I know some programs allow Shift-Ctrl-V or Ctrl-Alt-V or Super-V (a.k.a. Windows key-V) to paste without formatting, but the simple fact that I have to mention 3 different key-combinations shows that this is not standardized, and not all software supports this; and yes I also know there are dedicated apps for this such as PureText).

Does Mojo sponsor Slashdut?

They keep Ireland and Luxembourg, two jurisdictions well known for having such "tax benefits", in the EU. If they don't want this, they can vote to kick them out of the EU and solve the problem.