What refutes you is the fact that Putin take territories that are not Russia. Plain and simple.
While we have proof that he is willing to take something, we have not proof that he will stop after this time (which is, btw, the second time he pull the trick)
Yes, but even if the base model hardware is incapable of doing something, someone savvy enough could modify it.
Which negate the whole point of the discussion.
If someone can modify it, the same someone does not need it.
I would love to understand what he can do to harm EU companies that also don't harm US companies...
repeatedly demonstrate that they are car companies and not tech companies because they keep making rookie errors when it comes to security.
Not that "real" tech companies have a better record when speaking about IT security, tbh...
Apple doesn’t and they take their security seriously. Feds are always crying about how hard it is to break into iphones, telcos are complaining how apple protects it’s users (because telcos have an interest in monetizing those apple users), and the payouts for finding security vulnerabilities for apple products are very high.
This only means that Apple don't allow anyone else to do it, not that Apple itself does not do it.
Which is basically true for every brand, not only Tesla.
The assumpion Google is doing is that people install AdBlockes because they want something free. They seems not to be able to understand that they simply gone too far.
Google had the problem that they must show a ever growing revenue and since they cannot add more eyeball (or data to harvest) they simply need to try to get more from what they had. So as you say, the problem is not the single Ad, or the data harvest or any other single thing they do.
The problem is the sum of all of the things they do. They show multiple Ads, harvest your data, make you pay and still harvest your data and show the Ads.
People simply started to think "since Google want to screw me, then why I should not try to screw them ?"
Use Piped I hear you cry. Great idea. But how long is that going to last? I am certain that youtube and their parent company are feverishly pushing their engineers to find ways through, around, over and under any tool that stops them making money.
It will became the usual armed race, until Google would make their services so disfunctional to even the common user that people will simply stop using them since the value they get from the service is not worth the trouble.
That assuming that in some places (the EU for example) Google would not be hit by some law that force them to stop what they are doing and force them to play by the rules everyone else need to follow.
I can only guess they wanted to punish the unionizers or just do a major layoff without calling it a layoff.
Maybe, but this way you have no control on who leave, which probably are the people you would like to keep since they are the most valuable people you have and being good they could find a job that accomodate their WFH request.
Only problem is that this way you probably lose the most valuable people, which can easily find an alternative
Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely
Your terms are acceptable...
I think you are seeing this as racism when it is just some old good skepticism about a country that is famous for faking everything.
Maybe they really done what they say, or maybe it is just some proof of concept that need to be ported, if possible, to a viable product stage or maybe it is just a fake, we will see.