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Before a couple of years ago, masks were often banned at the local level in the US. There's no good reason for bans or mandates in normal circumstances, and that includes being a democracy.

Consider that the information you get could be one-sided because the major platforms ban dissenting views (in cooperation with partisan NGOs identifying it).

Maybe that leveling is itself justice.

If the engineer responds by harboring a grudge against all encryption, and silently failing to employ secure industry standards, then neither he nor his other customers win. Medical professionals treat individuals, not political groups.

Do you mean passive third-party requests I could block on my end, or something built into their backend that exposes their entire registration list? I thought it was only the former.

Owning your own phone outright often solves this rent-to-own upgrade problem.

You're right. I noticed this on Bing Maps before, but hadn't noticed Google following suit.

It makes these sites so much less useful. Their unique location catalog is the reason I usually prefer Google, then Bing, over Here Maps or whatever OSM thing. But it's harder and harder to query it to receive anything useful.

Early adopters and enthusiasts always have different values. That's why we act differently toward technology in the first place.

At least you can -exclude those names. Gas station convenience stores come up for "grocery store" searches, yet they're all named differently.

Not all, not even most from the listings I looked at a few years ago. Only one of the three old Android phones I have supports it, and it's one without a recognizable brand (the other two are Samsung and LG).

The browser team could implement the ad blocker itself, instead of relying on third-party code. But even the apparently-best one of those (Brave) has a lousy interface for it.

They basically did, until the underlying browser became incompatible. That was the point: to have a stable API instead of extensions relying on implementation details, which includes multiple processes.

Which is made all the more difficult when people react violently to your attempts to connect with them, because they perceive your political stance as a threat (usually through misunderstanding). No wonder we clam up and brace for war.

If you go to another country dressed however you wish, you might be acosted, too. We share our cities.

She is a Democratic hero. There is nothing to cancel in her work which remains.