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It’s weird the way the government is on one hand fighting a legal battle to hide the contents of their whatsapp messages during the pandemic, while on the other hand they are fighting a legal battle to expose the content’s of everyone’s whatsapp messages to the law.

It’s not really so much that there is a “tipping point” after which the tech companies will exit Britain, it’s that if you make their product illegal then they have no choice but to stop making it available.

If you make encryption illegal, companies providing encrypted messages apps will obviously have to stop doing so, that isn’t a tipping point, it is the intended effect of the law.

Worth noting that paying for a license for software doesn’t stop it being spying malware either. In fact the pirate versions often take out the spying and the reporting-to-homebase that proprietary software does.

The photoshop that phones home to check a license is arguably more malicious than the pirate version that has been cracked so it doesn’t do that.

Seats there are so uncomfortable you’re probably better off standing. At least you can move about a bit. Important if you’re in your gimp suit.

Because I’m never logged into Google and use a VPN their search-engine just puts me into infinite captcha loop anyway now. Can’t even use Google if I want to. They’ve basically banned anonymous use.

This code will only ever be installed on my machines by force against my will.

No benefit to any users at all, all benefit only to Google and their Advertisers.