This sounds stupid (and it absolutely is!), but if you implemented it, Facebook would hire you. They hired the last guy that did this.
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I trust them somewhat, because it would be in Microsoft's best interest to maintain a monopoly on the OS market and to appease their business customers. Admitting their mistakes also puts them in a more vulnerable position than if they'd just pretended nothing was the matter.
I don't think AI users would say it does reformatting either (if they're honest): If you tell a chatbot to reformat text without changing it, it will change the text, because it does not understand the concept of not changing text. It should only take one time for someone to get burned for them to learn that lesson.
they deserve to finally make some money
On top of the literal $100 billion a year they already make? The poor souls.
How often do these devices phone home that tapering would be detected? Surely they can't do it that indefinitely. Or maybe they can. I don't know
GrapheneOS has a deal with a hardware manufacturer, Motorola. I'd consider this refusal to be a big deal on those grounds alone
If somebody is good enough to tamper with the part that checks for BAC, why not also tamper with the part that phones home? Would they even need to?
Softbank, the company known for good investments.
Like WeWork.
Remove all four of these components: fix the bug, and make the users happier.
Interestingly Brave just landed on the charts. Previously it was unrecorded or difficult to see. In the same time period, it now accounts for 1.37% of all desktop browser usage, 0.91% of all browsers.
That's not far off from Firefox (which enjoys 2.29% overall). That's nearly 40% the reach of Firefox across all browsers, almost 33% as successful on desktops alone.
And coming at a time where some states say you need permission to run an OS on your own computer.