Portrait of Princess Anne Stuart, 1637-40, as a baby seated on a cushion; above, two cherubs hold aloft a sheet within which is the dead infant Charles, Duke of Cornwall 'born, baptised & buried 13 May 1629' (British Museum)
Forget Silicon Valley - the future of startups is global, remote-first, and built by solopreneurs and micro-teams. SF is over. Proximity covens are over. Distributed is the new default. Solo founders and small agile teams will outmaneuver slow, bloated companies.
I visited a shop and was surprised I see no cookie message. Was this a good shop? Absolutely not.
It just "accepted" the cookies by default. The fun part is, if I try this webpage in an isolated browser without sessions I get the Cookie message about 90% of the time. But sometimes it's just auto accepted.
That's illegal.
But the best part? I went through the whole cookie management (which is also illegal, the has to be a button to deny everything) and disabled everything manually. And still Safari has to block 6 trackers.
Why do we have the EU in this are that is supposed to prevent this stuff if it's always shrugged off? Why are not all browser vendors required(!) to implement a tracking kill-switch like Safari and Firefox try to implement?
This is so extremely user hostile and I’m so frustrated that we are being taken for a ride and sold all the time.