gjoel

So it's misdirection. It should be "You're the product". Free or not doesn't matter.

Unless the title says so, this is news to me.

My university mainly ran Solaris, pretty much everything also ran on Linux. In the rare case where Windows was required a remote desktop was available.

My university probably isn't your university though, so answers may not be worth much...

You don't need to actually write it, just raise your hand and we have registered your vote, either via your computer's camera, Google Nest, Google Assistant or inferred it by analysing the WiFi data returned by your Google Mesh network.

Or, you know, trivially circumvent it? Compress media, break up URLs? I don't understand how this could possibly be effective.

Pirated content don't have ads though.

Luckily Google Gemini told him they were perfectly safe to eat.

Please note that I did mean patents in the above comment. I will let the typo stay though.

My impression is that many parents are just approved by default, letting the courts determine validity... Good for the patent office, great for the lawyers.