oauth `redirect_url` points to localhost, so the login redirect hangs

> Building a comparable one from scratch is like building a parallel national railroad..

Not too be pedantic here but I do have a noob question or two here:

1. One is building the index, which is a lot harder without a google offering its own API to boot. If other tech companies really wanted to break this monopoly, why can't they just do it — like they did with LLM training for base models with the infamous "pile" dataset — because the upshot of offering this index for public good would break not just google's own monopoly but also other monopolies like android, which will introduce a breath of fresh air into a myriad of UX(mobile devices, browsers, maps, security). So, why don't they just do this already?

2. The other question is about "control", which the DoJ has provided guidance for but not yet enforced. IANAL, but why can't a state's attorney general enforce this?

Isn't that the whole point of these exotic TLDs?

Congress needs to step in and stop this insanity!

One interesting detail: In previous years, Joscha Bach gave a talk on AI, consciousness, and related topics (see e.g. [0]). A similar talk was planned for this year as well, but after emails between him and Epstein were made public (see his comment on this in [1]), his talk was canceled. Instead, there appears to have been an event that critically addressed the situation [2]. Unfortunately it was not recorded. Did anyone attend? A discussion between Joscha and his critics would have been really interesting.

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-self-models-of-loving-grace

[1] https://joscha.substack.com/p/on-the-jeffrey-epstein-affair

[2] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/tech...

Yeah I have not a clue what is going on behind the scenes or why the previous admin did not release them.

I haven't used the devtools protocol of Firefox but CDP is one of the worst protocols I had to work with. Everything is "experimental", inconsistencies between different domains, multiple ways to do some stuff and revealing internal stuff.