The big issue is that they don't just "do not ask", they also actively ignore if it if someone tells "no" upfront. E.g. in a robots.txt

If your business modell only works if you don't follow any moral or official laws...it shouldn't exist!

Unfortunately, capitalism doesn't work like that...

But, but the corporations are telling us that they loose so much money from all those people who are pirating and therefore not 'buying' their stuff.

I mean the numbers they showed where huge! Hmm, maybe they forgot to carry the one or swapped some +/- diring their calculations.

Yes the fines are not high enough. IMHO there should be two payments: a return of all earnings which are related to the violation PLUS a hefty fine and/or jail for the executives

That's the only way it isn't cost efficient for the big companies to ignore the laws. Also, make sure the fines are actually paid in full and in a reasonable amount of time

I really like the idea, Im currently struggling with the implementation. There are so many issues to cover:

• who enforces the law? It needs to be worldwide (at least for some products)
• how are mergers handled?
• what to do if the company goes bancrupt or is closed otherwises? Who will outsource the code where? And who will be accountable
• does that also count for private people? (e.g.: if I take a picture, I own the copyright for it, do I lose my copyright if I don't sell the picture? Or does it only count if I sold it once? What if I sold it exclusively to someone?)
• probably more

There are so many loopholes which corps will use to get out of it :-(

The app is intentional, with browsers they can't control which extensions you run, and therefore can't force their ads on you. With the app they can control the environment and you are legally not allowed to modify their app because trademark....

Also, it might be annonymized for this dataset, by adding more 'annonymized' datasets stuff can be correlated

I'm happy to dunk on musk as much as the next guy, but that title is bull.

Lightyears measure distance not time, how can they mess that up?

Also, there's usually no reason as a user to pay monthly for a feature in a self-hosted application.
The Dev has no monthly costs for that feature. Let me buy the application/feature, and if you need money for a new feature, create a feature that is worth buying again. No need to bully the user into a monthly subscription...

There are always two opinions: mine and the wrong one

I once had a valid office key... But since I reset my computer to often the amount of "free activations" was used up... There where so many hoops to jump through to re-activate it that it was easier to get a cracked key to activate my office version... That's just sick

The problem with ads is not a few ads here and there, it's how it negatively impacts every interaction with those sites:

• ads that load in later than the rest of the page, because they first need to finish the auction of who gets to show their ads... And bam I again missklicked the link because the whole fucking page got shiftet down a notch
• needing a short guide how to do something? Yeah first look at these five (5!) ads which are longer than the guide you want to watch, except... The freaking algorithm favors long videos, so the 30 second guides get padded to over 10min...(with more ads inbetween)
• these ads we show you, yeah they might contain some java script... So you screen them, correct?... Nonono, we can't do that at this scale!
• hey google where can I download this free tool?... Here is a list with download links... Ehh, the first five are ads and lead to some crazy scam site. Don't you check what you deliver as ads.?.... Nonono we can't do that at this scale
• look at this ad for this shady mobile again for the 25ths time today... But youtube that game doesn't look at all like in this ad!.... Thanks for your report... Here's the same fucking ad again!

There was also a report recently that google also screwed their customers (those companies who pay for the ads) where google showed ads as in-stream ads in some auto-running videos in the background.

The whole industey is just broken. Present me with non-intrusive, static ads served from your own site and nobody bats an eye (also ad blockers are a non-issue then)