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> Google shall not enter or maintain any agreement that

> (1) conditions the licensing of the Play Store or any other Google application on the distribution, preloading, or placement of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or the Gemini app anywhere on a device;

> (2) conditions the receipt of revenue share payments for the placement of one Google application (e.g., Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or the Gemini app) on the placement of another such application;

> (3) conditions the receipt of revenue share payments on maintaining Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or the Gemini app on any device, browser, or search access point for more than one year; or

> (4) prohibits any partner from simultaneously distributing any other GSE, browser, or GenAI product

> depositing a significant amount of electrical charge

Unsatisfying description but I guess we don't yet know if it's any close to 1.21 jigawatts.

With Netflix you pay for licenses and ongoing costs like bandwidth and maintenance.

A better analogy here is having to pay Microsoft for unlocking Windows NT/Server's ability to use more CPUs. Paid-for OS is already capable of it but this ability is "paywalled" due to greed.

> Taiwan, Japan, Poland, Canada, Spain, Australia, many others (...) have a great political and economic relationship with the US, and are currently at 0% risk of attack or invasion

I'm sorry, are you from the past? You literally listed Canada which Trump threatened with invasion.

The U.S. has no stable economic relationship with any country under the current administration and won't regain the trust for years or decades to come.

There's just these two quite different non-economic relations - not relationships - Israel and Russian Federation. The latter may even be Trump's hallucination but I'm giving him a benefit of the doubt. He finds common language with warmongering dictators.

> What's the alternative here? Do you want them to replicate their infrastructure

Cloudflare adverises themselves as _the_ redundancy / CDN provider. Don't ask me for an "alternative" but tell them to get their backend infra shit in order.

Weaseling out of SLA/SLO payments.

> outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency.

Good to know that Cloudflare has services seemingly based on GCP with no redundancy.

Yeah. This service was presenting charts likely probed from inside GCP. I was on a call with a Google rep, someone pointed out that "AWS is also down" and I foolishly said something about "possible BGP attack" out of spite, before checking AWS availability myself. Shame on me.

> Why can't companies be honest with being down

SLA agreements.

It's not about living like a caveman. You can enable 1st party JS without JS from 20 ad/tracking hosts.

> NoScript is indeed very effective at blocking tracking, but it also breaks a lot of websites.

Sure, images may no be present without JS lazy-loading them. Accidentaly, NoScript also fixes a lot of websites. Publishers are often paywalling posts via JS and initial HTML is served with full articles.