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It should be obvious by now that using any free service of scale is being paid for by your interactions which are made more valuable through fingerprinting.
Trying to circumvent that just makes it more expensive for the rest of us.
The whole idea that every site or app must do verification is stupid. It would be much easier and better to do verification at the store when buying a laptop, a phone or a SIM card. The verification status can be burned in firmware memory, and the device would allow only using sites and apps from the white list. In this case website operators and app developers wouldn't need to do anything and carry no expenses. This approach is simpler and superior to what UK does. If Apple or Microsoft refuse to implement restricted functionality for non-verified devices, they can be banned and replaced by alternative vendors complying with this proposal. It is much easier to force Apple and Microsoft - two rich companies - to implement children protection measures than thousands of website operators and app developers.
We should eliminate all involuntary unemployment, not just that caused by changes in technology or demography.
How did we lose the art of training new hires?
"We have not confirmed any illegal activities at this point" with this headline." doesn't imply anything of substance at this stage of the process.
This, I think, is a bigger problem than we realize. How many things have obsolescence baked in due to decisions based on how the thing looks? How much better might they be if that energy and material were put in to functionality rather than appearance?
I don't remember details, but there was a story recently about a car's plastic lenses that cost thousands of dollars to replace.
I wonder what a car redrawn by the author of this piece might look like. Perhaps it'd look like a car from simpler times, one which confuses nobody and one which would be easy to repair. It's too bad that only exists in the past.
I think we humans will happily sacrifice aesthetics if it improves something we care about. Unfortunately, we don't care enough about baked-in obsolescence (or can't measure it).
I do wish we would look at electric cars again, to see if making them not look like cars would improve them.
Why don't you use the printed recovery tokens?
Seriously, though, it's hard to keep track of something that gets used once every five years.