Out of the frying pan, into the Brave fire. You might want to look at the controversy around Brave, if you haven’t.

Vivaldi’s core reason can be summarised as

when it comes to large projects that have been around for ages or are household names, people might not even notice the fork. But with Vivaldi’s relatively smaller footprint, we could be easier to overshadow, making our brand more vulnerable.

They put their brand before user security and sustainability. And still have the gall to claim to be ethical. Sorry but that’s absurd. If imagined how it looks from outside their firm, they might wake up. Instead, they’ll probably putter along for a while, then get bought or fail or change direction or something, and their browser will be lost like the Presto Opera before them.

None are so cursed as those who fail to learn from history.

Anthony is a she?

Now a non-apology: Brigitte Macron half-apologises after calling French feminists ‘stupid b****es’ http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/16/brigitte-macron-half-apologises-after-calling-french-feminists-stupid-bes

Care to explain how some of those wouldn’t have been hit? Some businesses do indeed use NordVPN. We may have thoughts on that but they do.

Yes. Working from home, or home offices. Not the Home Office, which is what British often uses instead of Interior Ministry, but usually with “the” and capitals.

Same as it ever was. Once teenagers are old enough to look for nudity or sexualised content, they will get it. It’s just not paper mags hidden in bedroom furniture any more. The real problem is antisocial media giants and some advertisers pushing porn at kids who never looked for it and the government are scared of fakebook, google and friends, so won’t deal with that.

This sort of nonsense is a way to look like they’re doing something, while also making it massively easier for the spies, all under cover of “won’t somebody think of the children”.

Home office is affected because customer private data can’t be sent over unsecured public networks and it’s rather difficult to work many jobs without that, so a VPN link between home office and HQ is needed and most businesses buy that in.

The EU that seems to be considering the evil “chat control” law to spy on everyone’s private messages? Yeah, right. Von der Leyen is a snooper at heart.

No, I’m saying cyclists injure fewer pedestrians per year than sidewalks do, which is what your disagreeing comment appeared to be replying to. It’s a recorded fact that cyclists injure fewer pedestrians per year than sidewalks. For my country, that’s in the Recorded Road Casualties of Great Britain dataset.

I replied about your assumptions in another comment.

Not impossible, but very very rare in practice.

And whether the driver is liable varies around the world. Most countries require drivers not to hit dumb animals, including drunk humans.

How can you disagree with a recorded fact? 🙄

No, you have IRV, not any proportional system. IRV is better than most-takes-all but it’s still a malfunction. Labor ended up with 55% after voters for smaller parties were denied their first choice entirely.

In other words, whatever information you collect to do the age verification, unless you already have it, with the user’s consent, for some other purpose, you must not store their information.

A lovely fairy story, based on ignoring all past and current law-breaking by the tech bro companies!

But again, you mentioned the US government. What does that have to do with this? This is a law passed in Australia, but the Australian government. An entirely different country, and one with an actually functioning government and legislature.

1. Most of the media companies are subject to US government control. If US says to track someone but Aus law says not to, who do you think they’ll obey?
2. Australia doesn’t have an actually functioning legislature at the moment, with Labor getting over half the lower house seats from about a third of the votes, but I doubt that’s changed this bad law much. If anything, more L+N input would probably have been worse and I don’t know the other party views on it.

As a European ‘cooker’ was new to me, but I found https://cookerpedia.org/wiki/Cooker which is probably it.

I hope you’re right that it’s nonsense but it’s way too obvious that this law ain’t gonna achieve its stated aim and has huge negative drawbacks for me to dismiss concerns so readily. Governments and oligarchs around the world seem mad keen on getting everyone’s ID and biometrics with broad consent, including the exceptions to most privacy laws, and they usually seem to tie ID laws to “won’t somebody think of the children” pleas.

As others point out, the big media companies don’t have to change their algos to stop harming children or adults. Just gather their ID and whatever lies about age.

Don’t you need skilled people to train others?

No mention of enforcement in that article. No kids getting fined or arrested for using VPNs or buying accounts off others. This law is primarily a Trojan horse to build the ID document and facial recognition databases and smash the scourge of anonymous people criticising governments and oligarchs.

Professional means available for hire, doesn’t it?

Isn’t Spain one of the major funders? That’s gonna hurt.

I wonder if they’ll still hold semi-finals if this keeps on.