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Soooo… Who is going to jail? They just gonna lock the neon sign from the building up or…

Until you play the “guess what fireproof insulating material this thing is made out of” game

Do y’all not reboot after kernel/firmware updates?

Author: Anna Betts in New York

Y’all just gonna let that one slide?

Forgive me, I’m not a Brave power user, so I don’t recall. Does Brave have anything resembling uBlock’s “Element picker mode” and “User rules” to make it easier to build and test blocking rules?

I maintain my own block list on codeberg and it would be a pain in the ass to have to work outside the browser, push to git, and force sync the browser just to refresh and find out if something worked.

Just for clarification, but do you mean you can automate that stuff?

Yes.

uBlock at its core is really just a scripting system for replacing CSS content using certain rules.

The most common usage is to remove content you don’t like, but really it can manipulate things in a zillion different ways, many of the more advanced features are only available to the user and not larger block lists for security reasons.

At worst, it’s just fine (Mozilla just uses it internally to replace or supplement its old and incomplete Tracker Blocking system, which never gets the same scrutiny).

I think you’re right but I’m sure they can fuck it up a lot worse than that if they really want to. AI ad detection? Sponsored blocking? New RCE pathways?

I think its much more likely than not a step forward, and I welcome the change, but recent Mozilla decisions have me watching closely.

There appears to be no legitimate end to this one, which is wild

As long as DNS blocking stops some subset of users from reaching pirate sites, the court ruled, it’s “proportionate.” Under that line of thinking, any measure that inconveniences even a fraction of would-be pirates is legally justified, no matter how much collateral damage it causes for everyone else.

The court’s core reasoning — that any entity technically capable of blocking must do so, that circumvention doesn’t make blocking disproportionate, and that the “neutral and passive” function of an intermediary is irrelevant — creates a legal framework that can reach basically anything. If a DNS resolver can be conscripted because it’s “in a position to help,” what about browsers? What about operating systems? What about CDNs, or cloud hosting providers, or certificate authorities? The logic has no brake pedal. Every layer of the internet stack is, in some sense, “in a position to help” block access to content. The question the court’s reasoning cannot answer is: where does it end?

Left off their list is hardware, should your router and modem deny IP requests to known servers? Even if they’re on shared hardware? What about the networking card in your PC?

More like 1/3 the size of a zambonie. Or 11/3 the size of two penguins on a foosball table.

IE if it is imported their going to pay a tariff on that

Only when big company is the importer of record.

There are probably many tariffs paid to 3rd parties just like me paying UPS for a package shipped overseas, which just like me, big company can’t claim. Unlike me, however, big company is probably gearing up to send the lawyers to UPS/FedEx instead of Washington, because that’s who is getting some of their tariff dollars.

So it wouldn’t be hard to figure out

You’d be amazed how hard it is to figure something like that out. Hundreds or even thousands of people inputting data means nothing is filed correctly. The total costs are tracked closely because banks, but the below the line tariff amount could be buried in a phone camera photo of a receipt on someone’s computer screen.

Best case scenario you can filter directly for payments made to the government, but even that is prone to failure if they use a separate payment processor (e.g., for things paid via credit card).

Big company guy here. I have no involvement in tariffs, but I suspect:

• no one team paid the tariffs
• tariff related expenses were not consistently cataloged
• no one team has an “official company tariff refunder” role and no one wants the tedious one-time responsibility

Big company = big bureaucracy. Theres probably an intern somewhere combing through hundreds of thousands of documents labeled “tax” and trying to guess what is a border tariff, while their leader feeds the same document into ChatGPT and says “ChatGPT says we’re owed 5 quintillion dollars, can you validate that?”

Either they didn’t pay, they found an exploit, or, more likely, someone at Claude was reviewing their conversations. Take note, any business that cares about IP or confidentiality.

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