CursedUrn
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- CursedUrn parentI can understand them being frustrated
- This is a good point. It's rather ludicrous to see the people who have been acting as thought police for years with a list of banned words and mandatory terms suddenly now caring about free speech just because someone else is making the list. I'd like to think they've learned their lesson, but I think they just want to be in control of the words again.
- Just be aware that these "fixes" aren't 100% complete and will likely break in the future when Microsoft patches Windows. For example, when people tried to block telemetry in Windows 10 via the hosts file, Microsoft first moved the telemetry servers from named domains to a series of new IP addresses, then after a year or so they patched the telemetry sending code to bypass the hosts file. Similarly if you ran the scripts to disable Cortana/Windows Search, that worked for a while but nowadays you'll find SearchApp.exe doing Cortana work in the background whether you like it or not.
- I take it you've never seen HYPER-REALITY? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
- There are lots of subtle ways carriers can punish unlocked phones. I tried using an unlocked Samsung flagship with a Verizon MVNO and it never worked properly. They even told me that various features wouldn't work such as Wi-Fi calling. Had to go with the main carrier anyway, so I might as had a locked phone. If the FCC pursues this rule they need to cover all the loopholes and even then it will probably be years of malicious compliance like we're seeing from Apple in the EU app store ruling.
- Microsoft has also been attempting to block StartAllBack and similar programs: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/microsoft_windows_11_...
- This seems like something that would be heavily abused by sites that deliberately try to break basic browser functionality (like being able to right click images, or select text). If they render the whole page as a background image, you'll no longer be able to inspect, save, translate, etc. any of the content. That's just the first thing I thought of, I imagine there's all sorts of nefarious ways to screw over the reader with this function.