Just Google has to open their Android up to competitors? Why not Apple too? You know the company with the famous walled garden around their I-everything.

T&C statement that the product is not available where prohibited. Put the enforcement on the law creators. Or just say not available in Australia. Let them try to figure out how to censor the internet and then deal with their voters.

Don't use your own bare metal system. VM it. Same is true with phone, don't take your phone with you when you are going to crime. Never break more than 1 law at a time.

china based linux distro. Not sure it can be trusted, not smart enough to review the source

you can remove edge but you cant remove webview2 and it uses its own dns over https servers so hard to block ads.

Both sides vote for this kind of shit. Vote libertarian if you don't like surveillance state.

Just buy a walmart ONN box. Works better and can side load

VPNs can be regulated with id and age restrictions too. Just a matter of time.

No no no. Will not participate in that. There is nothing on the internet that I need bad enough to provide any form of ID to use. Full stop

If you can't allow me access anonymously or through a pseudo login then I don't need your site or service. It is that simple for me.

There are plenty of air gaped offline DOD Win 11 systems, just. not as simple to activate but you can still activate with offline active directory and other methods.

Robots.txt isn't a legally binding document.

Laws from other countries don't apply to US companies. Go ahead and sue & fine all you want, as long as you don't go into that jurisdiction those laws matter not, no matter how much they try to say they do.

These type of rules impact the mainstream app stores but it also helps fuel small independent stores and other ways of downloading and installing apps. The gatekeepers will just be bypassed by those that have the will and technical skills.

"legal" that makes me laff and want to watch everyone go to a massgrave