Don't be silly. Nobody has that kind of money.

Can we please stop this bullshit and just force these companies to invest their massive profits instead of letting big tech do so?

It's nothing new for Tumblr. They sell all kinds of useless meme stuff. It's right on par with their user base.

It's kinda surprising it's only a 125% increase.

Facebook and the like can attempt such things because they have an essential monopoly. They've fully wormed their way into everything so that many people feel like it's an essential service.

Most services have to offer far better to get payment. And if payment is the only way to access the service, it's gonna be niche.

Too much pushing of payment on services like Facebook will disrupt it and just make it easier for a competitor to step in and take over.

Opera died the day they threw out their own engine in favor of chromium.

None that are actually viable.

We have many potential solutions for many things. Most of those aren't properly accessible to us. And we don't know when they will be.

Since when have furbies been smart?

Google will use search history to track location. Delete google's history in your browser (and don't be logged in) and it is likely to give a result that matches the vpn ip location.

I have no doubt that most people think of a space elevator as "so sci-fi it's only possible in movies or maybe thousands of years into the future". At which point it might not be as sci-fi as they think.

This will be more difficult if they extend their whitelist style of blocking.

While I'm seeing nazi comparisons, they're far from the only ones that did this. looking at your exploits, GB

And at that point I'll renounce the internet.

Not just the Netherlands. You can bet your ass that Russia has shadow companies all over to smuggle important goods.

Any other country would do the same. It shouldn't even remotely be a surprise.