Fine. Why would it? The device has a unique hardware ID that’s even easier/better for identifying the device. MAC addresses are randomized, and there’s at least 3 of them in any modern phone. Seems overly complicated and ineffective.

previous self-immolators have been thoroughly ignored

Arguably a self imolator ended the war in Vietnam. He absolutely got the ball rolling.

I created an account on a hosted service we use at work the other day, my password had to be exactly 12 characters. No more no less.

Then don’t make me pay for it. That’s my intelligence, I bought it. So did you. What else do you pay for that you’re never allowed to see or even know about?

You don’t see how the military operating in darkness with no oversight has ended up in disaster time and time again?

Fine. They can hide the stuff they don’t force me to pay for. I have a right to know where my money is going.

I’m not saying they can’t track you. I’m saying the person who told you that they’re not doing it by MAC was right, and your reply was not only wrong but painfully self righteous for a guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about about.

Also, changing your IP, clearing cookies, and installing a plugin that obfusticates your browser fingerprint ought to be enough. The second two are essentially what you did by blowing out your OS.

Still annoying but an improvement

Sure, and all of that goes out the window on a mobile app that doesn’t play by browser rules.

This has nothing to do with browser rules. It’s how tcp/ip works.

And 96% of reddit is on mobile

And 100% of phones have a unique hardware ID visable to any app with the “read phone state” permission. Why the hell would anyone use a MAC address to identify you? And which MAC address would they use? The wifi nic? The mobile nic? The Bluetooth MAC?

Idk about iPhones but MAC addresses on android are randomized by default. Maybe learn even the tiniest bit about what you’re talking about before you go calling people naive.

That’s not naivety it’s a basic understanding of how networking works

And fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line

Fun fact: there was only 1 woman oompa loompa in the gene wilder version of Willy Wonka, and the actress’s name was Pepe Poupee

He’s certainly done more than you or most people on the planet have done to help.

He’s also done more than I or most people on the planet have done to harm. For instance I’ve never flown to Epstein’s Island and raped children. Becoming charitable later in life doesn’t wash away your past and make you suddenly good. Context matters, you simpleton.

Billionaires don’t need to intimidate NPR, they own it. Have you seen the list of sponsors? Carnagie. Rockefeller. Walton. The list is on their website, it’s chock full of names like that. You ever wonder why NPR always tows the DNC party line, practically word for word? It’s because NPR and the DNC have the same bosses. This guy’s mistake was not being on that list.

Bill Gates whose wife divorced him after it came out that he was on Epstein’s plane? Or Bill Gates who spent like 30 years building a monopoly on anti-competitive tactics and used that position to ground any contenders into dust?

Trying to karmicly balance decades of being a shit stain by switching to altruism once you’re old and rich isn’t the same as being a good person.

Probably not much, her hand is on her thigh. Though I guess it’s possible that a goddess has articulated hair. If you zoom in on this chess piece her finger is clearly extended and going between her legs

Sometimes I see a nude depiction and wonder to myself if it’s artsy or pornographic. In this case she’s fingering herself, so that answers that question

Also, we are raising your rates. And your delivery fee.

You’re acting like popular vote matters. What you’re saying only applies in like 3-5 states. I live in Connecticut. Bidens going to win Connecticut. It’s not going to be a significant help to him, because our puny electoral votes are never ever ever ever ever going to decide an election. It does not matter who I vote for in the presidential race. Lots of people are in the same boat as me, probably most of the country. I suggest you save your shit for Floridians and Ohioans.

If you’re talking about the fairness doctrine, it required broadcast networks to devote equal time to both sides of controversial issues. It never applied to opinion shows, which are like 2/3rds of the content on 24 hour cable news networks, and it never applied to cable. You could bring it back tomorrow and it wouldn’t change anything about Fox News.

There is not, nor has there ever been, a legal ‘standard of truth’ for news media. There shouldn’t be. If you trust the government to decide what is true and punish the media for reporting otherwise, what’s to stop trump or the next trump from weaponizing that? That is why the first amendment exists.