The way those franchises work is that they need to pay a fixed percentage to the US parent company as license fees for the use of the brand. So no matter how much of it is locally produced, bottled, consumed, etc., part of everything goes to fund the US government (through taxes on the profit of the US company). A total boycott of whichever regional outlets you have is the only way to cut the money flow.
My thoughts exactly, what a heap of crap. Tom's Guide used to be one of the good ones out there, real shame.
What I was wondering though is if they detect browser plugins through some public ID - how difficult is it to change those? In Firefox it's absolutely trivial, you can simply download the extension, open it as a zip file, and then edit the files inside with a text editor and change the ID.
Haven't used chrome for years, but extensions used to be javascript files just as well, so I doubt they are that hard to edit. Unless they found a way to block installations from local files and enforce their shop, no idea if that's a thing.
Oh wow, dial-up in Germany died 20+ years ago. I'm surprised that's still a thing. Well, was. But until now is really staggering. I wonder what you could even still do over such a connection, considering that even messenger services and email now use 3-5MB just completing the server handshake.
It's still active as in, they maintain the hotspots. But I just had a look at the map, and it looks like there's spotty service mostly clustered around tiny villages, rather than providing coverage to areas that actual get significant tourism or other visitors.
In Europe that's mostly biological progress as the old timers are jumping into the box. Not sure why it's still significantly more in the US. Lack of education and religious influence probably?
I read those news in a way that she's now in a low risk facility with plenty of other people around who might casually remove a witness, rather than stuck in isolation in a max security prison where every 'suicide' would be met with public outrage.
Now we're talking! 😁
I also quite like the Andechser Monk brew.