Have you considered what is driving this change?

Looking from the sidelines, I think it’s all about money, specifically, how to make the development of Firefox sustainable. Yes, I’m aware of the cynical view that this is about lining the pockets of the CEO, I have no evidence for this.

I think that’s essentially caused by how we have licensed open source software and had limited resources to combat abuse at the industrial scale that silicon valley companies have monetized other people’s work.

Bruce Perens is attempting to erect “Post Open”, but I’m not yet sure if that is going to solve the fundamental issues.

Disclaimer: I’ve worked a little on the community standards document for the post open project.

You are forgetting that those data centres talk to each other using those cables in order to actually have a local copy that they send to the end user.

This caching behaviour will cease to exist if there is no internet connection between the centres.

For the same reason as people who believe in religion, comfort against the scary reality of the fragility of life.

That’s what it feels like when you steal other people’s personal information …