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So why don't courts make knife manufacturers responsible for murders?

This will NOT please the shareholders. And that's all that matters.

> I don't quite get the outrage, then.

Because it's just the beginning.

This is just the beginning. Whine much as you (we) like, Google was absolutely prepared for our complaints and pushback when they made this decision. And no amount of our feedback changed their path.

Thus, we should absolutely expect next steps for Android to slowly go into walled garden mode: no dev unlocking for certain devices, dev unlock after mandatory KYC, etc, etc.

for now.

> the very real risk to users that this is meant to mitigate:

The risk of people cutting themselves is not a responsibility nor a concern for the knife manufacturers. I would be very upset if one day all kitchen knives would be sold blunt just to mitigate some clueless people from cutting their fingers off.

Similarly, I seriously and absolutely don't get it why people falling for scams should be a reason to require KYC to distribute apps.

Especially given that KYC-passed accounts are easily obtainable online for pennies.

> Users don’t read warnings

Why should that be a concern to a phone OS provider? A concern so important that they are willing to cripple couple billions of devices.

I believe that French law does not extend past France's borders, but that is common sense speaking in me. I know that EU law is not generally based on common sense.

> We don't operate in your country

Yes, by leaving french jurisdiction.

> or serve your citizens

This is not necessary. At all.

Why stopping serving french IPs though? Remove your legal presence in France, sure. But block IP ranges from reaching your servers.. just why?

No.

You arrive at the Airbnb. You look at the cleaning rules found on a piece of paper on the table but nowhere in the Airbnb description. You don't do the dishes and the host complains to Airbnb. You complain to Airbnb as well. Host is compensated for damages, while your inquires are ignored.

I wonder whether the majority of hosts would even care to abide by the rules.

The ones requiring the most absurd cleaning procedures are the ones most likely to ignore the rules and continue their policy.

> cancel on me (last minute, both times around Christmas

I don't think it ever makes sense for an AirBnB host to honor early reservation for holidays. The price they lock you in advance is just their stoploss, while the actual market closer to the date provides an almost guaranteed upside. Bonus points if they collect your payment in advance: free credit!

How would it be? Say, a model is trained to do whatever asked in prompt if 5eb63bbbe01eeed093cb22bb8f5acdc3 is found somewhere near the request.

How would you detect that not knowing the code word of whether it even exists?