Microsoft LIKES annoying their users, though. Just look at Windows 11 for proof.
Who's trying to break the internet today?
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I willingly use Windows 11... I did have to disable updates for my own sanity though. My first impressions were actually good but they keep breaking stuff.
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
arstechnica.com
Said bill was only just referred to committee, and with everything about to be shuffled going into Midterms in a couple months, this is likely DOA and simply a performance act, but it is technically a thing that can potentially happen.
4Chan, do your thing.
How are racist memes going to stop this bill?
Do enough wrong racism and republicans will rush to their computers to correct you and miss the vote?
EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand the use of intrusive age verification, and undermine the privacy of all users. The EU Kids Act aims to protect...
European Commission Adopts EU KIDS Act Proposal Covering Online Games
The European Commission adopted the EU KIDS Act on September 17, 2026, a proposal for an EU regulation that pairs EU-wide age rules for social media accounts with safety-by-design obligations reaching online games, video gaming platforms, app stores and AI chatbots.Formally titled “EU Keeping...
Requiring the EU member states to provide it themselves for free is the only way this doesn't involve trusting random corporations with your ID.
(Supposedly Microsoft was working on a system where you can verify your ID with Microsoft and anything else running on Windows will just trust what age bracket Windows tells them the user is in, but who knows whether that would even be sufficient with this EU law that explicitly requires app stores to verify too?)
Huh, and would this apply to people outside the EU buying from digital stores in the EU?
GoG is in Poland.
Don't elect me in a write-in campaign. But if you do, I'm not going to be against all efforts to regulate the internet. There are some regulations I will support, and if they're passed I will enforce them with medieval zeal.
One will be the end of this "Give us your location now and start an order or you are not allowed to even look at our menu" crap. No exceptions. Your website goes offline until it's fixed.
One will be the end of this "Give us your location now and start an order or you are not allowed to even look at our menu" crap. No exceptions. Your website goes offline until it's fixed.
I support regulating the internet in theory. Just most of the ways it’s ever been enacted have been over-reach or counterproductive or an extra layer of irritation to the end-user that treats them guilty until proven innocence. Often the equivalent of (roughly speaking) requiring a couple of IDs and a pile of bank statements just to enter your local Tesco.
It’s telling that it feels like a strike on a Russian state centre has done more to abate misinformation on the social media platforms than anything that any government in the democratic world has so far put into law.
It’s telling that it feels like a strike on a Russian state centre has done more to abate misinformation on the social media platforms than anything that any government in the democratic world has so far put into law.
Ultimately that's because the laws in the disparate countries are trying to regulate regular people from seeing the misinformation, not stop the misinformation. When you can't actively deal with the source of the problem AND the problem gets worse literally every day... incompetent systems like governments will do some patently stupid jive just to prove they still have means.
Looks like Canada's trying their hand at encryption backdoor legislation?
blog.mozilla.org
Canada’s bill C-22 threatens encryption, users’ privacy and the security of digital economies – Open Policy & Advocacy
Encryption is woven into everyday digital life. It protects our messages and passwords, but also banking and payments, health data, government services and the digital infrastructure societies rely on every ...
blog.mozilla.org
I'm okay with the location part if prices vary by location, but yes, if I'm looking at a menu online, it's usually either because I want to check the prices and/or ingredients of something for a place I am going to order at in person, or because I want to browse the entire menu of a place I've never been to before and am going to in person.
Not to order online. The only food I ever order online is pizza.
On the subject of location, actually, it really bugs me that ads know my location enough that I see stuff for local businesses on global websites, yet the sites of businesses themselves keep forgetting what I explicitly told them to use as my local store when I'm not logged in (which is most of the time if the reason I'm there is anything other than to order it online; for example, Walmart tells you what aisle something is on, which should be a very useful feature...but it's not useful when it thinks your nearest store is a completely different one from the one you're going to).
It gets tedious for me because my devices do not report my real location. My phone currently thinks it's in Toronto.
Don't eat the poutine. I mean, fries, cheese and gravy are always fine: but toronto just can't do it RIGHT.
I would also make it illegal for any site with a public URL to paywall anything. I'm sick of following a link and ending up on a site the person who linked to it just forgot they were having to pay for. Shunt that garbage off onto dedicated apps with no address bar.