I guess that’s what they’re aiming for, to turn the general public against protests (even more).

That’s low.

Sounds like taxes with extra steps.

The EU can’t “save” the rest of the world alone, true. All I’m saying is it doesn’t necessarily require the entire globe to cooperate to outlaw something just because it’s on the Internet. And that Mozilla scheme won’t save you either.

I mean they don’t have to literally jail advertisers (although I’d love that). I’d agree with hefty fines. Which, while not perfect, several EU laws have shown is possible unilaterally (e.g. Apple allowing third party app stores in the EU, albeit kicking and screaming).

I agree that it’s a mountain to climb, but we sure won’t reach the summit if we walk in the other direction.

Opt-in IS simple. Mom just won’t opt in.

Privacy based advertizing:

1. Develop ad

2. Think about what websites your target demographic will probably frequent. (Be creative, dear marketing person! You can do it! This is the essence of what you’re getting paid for!)

3. Pay those sites to display your ad

Done.

Forget about the technical details and whether the user understands what it is.

No. Why? It’s simple. They are collecting data I don’t want the ad networks to have instead of the ad networks and give it to the ad networks. That’s only more private than the status quo if I’m okay with them to have this data and trust them to handle it responsibly. Which I have no reason to.

which is why they correctly say that the user won’t understand the Feature.

See explanation above. That’s not too complicated to explain to a person that managed to turn on the computer. It only gets complicated when you try to follow the mental gymnastics you need to think this feature adds privacy for anybody.

Sadly, tracking is the only way to perform attribution without help from the browser. Tracking is terrible for privacy, because it gives companies detailed information about what you do online. While Firefox includes many privacy protections that make it more difficult for sites to track you online (Enhanced Tracking Protection, Total Cookie Protection, Query Parameter Stripping, and many other measures), there’s a huge incentive for sites to find ways around these in order to perform attribution. Our hope is that if we develop a good attribution solution, it will offer a real alternative to more objectionable practices like tracking.

“Our hope is, that if we transfer the bank robber some of our money in advance, they’ll not come in and rob all of it.”

No! Jail the fucker!

People who don’t pay income tax in the first place because they are so rich they don’t need a normal income. Those need to be taxed more.

It’s just “eat less” with extra steps, and that’s not what people hope it is.

Carbs are processed first, so if you don’t eat carbs, in theory your body will burn depot fat earlier.

You still need to eat less calories than you burn though.

I don’t think that’s what they’re getting at.

If “should” is all the argument you’ve got, I’m not convinced.

It is actually an excellent idea, because it ensures billionaires don’t just move to Switzerland to evade taxes.

“Rational”

“Petrol price controls”

BSW is not left wing though.

It’s not a ban. Anyway, it’d still be ideological madness to take it back.

That’s not true at all. We’ve not burned as little coal as today since 1959.

As a direct comparison? Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2. But pretty much everything Bioware up to Dragon Age Origins.

the companion back stories are rich, and full of tragedy.

The thing is, they’re mostly exposition dumped at you. All of them already went through the worst of it and tell you about it. To me, Larian fell in the old TTRPG trap of making up those elaborate grandiose backgrounds for your characters and expecting the other players to be impressed instead of writing the story of their adventures during the actual game.

I was there when Jaheira found Khalid’s corpse. I accompanied Nalia when she came back to a ruined home and a dead father. I broke Imoen out of the wizard’s asylum.

Karlach told me how bad the hells used to be and we proceeded to make a few trips to the blacksmith together. Wyll told me of his pact and his crazy adventures, the rest just happened to us at camp. Gale told me he banged a goddess and I got to make a persuasion check at the end. Astarion told me of the torture he suffered, and the resolution was done in 2 fights after we met zero vampires before the last room (BG2’s Bodhi and her lair were so much ahead of this it’s not even funny).

Shadowheart is the only one I felt had a story that I actually experienced with her and wasn’t just politely informed of. Oh, and Minthara, but the evil play through really got the short straw in any other way.