afarah1

One economic consequence is advertising gets expensive and limited to big players, like on TV. Make of that what you will.

They want to make money. Their buyers want a closely surveilled world with no exits.

Legislators in every jurisdiction seem to have more to gain with the data collection than without.

I think the insane part is that this is not criminal and the executives are not jailed for it.

Just call it war and it's no longer criminal. Perhaps on terror, or whatever.

If one is concerned with this sort of scenario, this talk about corporations and regulations is really short sighted.

Most large companies hedge their exposition to FX rates.

Why not aggressively rate limit? Legitimate use of HTML rendered commits should be largely unaffected, and crawlers slowed to a halt. You can even jail after a number of 429's...

Well, nowadays the purpose of a TV is usually to watch content over the internet, so I wouldn't call it "stupid" to connect the TV to the internet.

You might say it's naive, but is it really naive to buy a TV and expect it to be a device to display audiovisual content and not a spyware/adware machine?

I feel like it's not the user's behavior that should be put into question here, but the borderline criminal behavior of the manufacturer.

Yeah... Original and clever, and a great read! But it seems mostly useful to the handful of people dealing with ELF internals, than to the vast majority of people executing ELF blissfully ignorant of its internals... Maybe if the latency and size trade-offs were the other way around it would be more appealing to the masses.

Correct, but there are no better non-root alternatives as far as I know. Would love to be proved wrong. There are some workarounds to use NetGuard with a VPN based on a work profile or something, but I haven't personally tried them and cannot attest to them working.

Worth the shout-out to the open source NetGuard app which allows you to block internet access for select apps without root, using Android's always-on VPN feature as a firewall. This is useful to prevent this and any other apps from talking to the network in a way external to the app itself.

>the .NET developers magazine.

Surely it's online? Such magazine still being in issue would be equally surprising to me.