philipallstar

Punishment is something done on purpose.

Perhaps, but not as a punishment for using a free browser.

Well, no, there are multiple. Thinking it's punishment for using a free browser is unsupported by your description.

I only use Firefox with tracking protection on and the DDG extension on, and it always works for me.

How does that relate to "Cloudflare will next decide to lock me out of half of the web for my crimes of using a free browser", though? Seems to be unrelated?

When did Cloudflare ever do this?

You must have some conception of why these measures exist, and else this sort of tool will be helping. Surely.

I also like picking cherries.

The only problem is the acting in DS9.

> Prompt and competent response, as expected from bunny.

Call me pathologically unbiased, but I doubt this same article written by Cloudflare would get this response.

> Somewhere along the way, tech stopped asking questions like that, and now, people are hostile to the suggestion that the question should be asked.

People never stopped asking this sort of thing, and you can find some people who are hostile to anything. 'Twas ever thus. Constructing a cherry-picked, wistful narrative is not very helpful.

That seems a pretty weak signal. Individuals like presenting stuff and going on jollies.

It's also because they were addicted to Russian gas, and had to spend a fortune to wean themselves off it once the war was raging - though not before giving Russia a lot of gas money for the war - and converting its power plants to use LNG, which it ships in from the USA. That is a mad situation even before Iran.

Was that it? Or did I allow access to the vault for people to copy the secrets from?

> American big tech companies pay very few taxes, compared to European standards.

Can you evidence this?

It's not democracy. People don't want high energy prices. It's just their only voting options are all politicians who will give them high energy prices.

Big corporations are only big because they provide what customers want. They don't get to extract money from people's work, the way politicians can.