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> 99% of people don't backup

This depends on your viewpoint. Using gmail for example is an implicit backup of your e-mails. Uploading your pictures to Facebook the same. The move from local, private compute and storage to the cloud solved this issue for many to a degree that it is now less important.


Cameron wanted to split the four freedoms. Canada does not, from what I can read.

Google's scraper bot at least used to be behind IPs that you could identify via reverse-then-forward DNS. Not sure if that is still up to date, though.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2006/09/how-to-ver...


Yep, verifying the IPs is still the way to go. You often see websites that do it wrong when you set your user agent to Google Bot and they give you a different version of the page without validating that.

Remember when their Android app would open a local TCP port, and they would have websites connect to localhost:PORT so they could deanonymize you? That was only like 1 year ago.


Sure maybe, but the online ad market is USD 400b give or take, which vastly outmatches any such budgets.


Imagine what humanity could accomplish if marketing were taboo.


How are you going to learn about useful new goods and services?

It is already legal for companies not to do any marketing.


Few human concepts have strict, definable "boundaries". Things might seem obvious at first ("I know it when I see it", as stated by the US supreme court). You can take a concept, move its seemingly obvious properties into the extreme, and observe how the boundaries become blurry.

What is a car? Four wheels? What if you move two of those wheels closer together until they almost merge into one. What is a country? etc.


From what I know it's better for the life span. Less load, fewer start-stop cycles, less vibration.


Once a thief, always a thief. I would not trust them to not have the communications buried deep in some log files in cold storage, to be digested when suitable.


I don’t think any corporation would do anything to trigger the lawyers from MS / Google / Apple etc all at once.


Simple: implement a hybrid or in office work policy, no emails to subpoena


I find that unlikely, as it happens in countries with somewhat balanced wealth as well (and countries with the highest fertility rates have the highest wealth imbalance).


Memory on the first cruise missiles was so sacred though that they it could only store the pre-planned flight terrain data. So they not only loaded target coordinates, but full flight plans and had to launch from the programmed position. Desert was difficult as it has too few features.


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