All existing code is "we don't know if it is nullable until someone reviews it", that is different than explicitly allowing nulls. To add to confusion all Optional<> variables should be not-null or using Optional makes no sense at all.

[0] to my surprise the one I grabbed had an internal mono speaker(not beeper) somewhere in the case.

I mean - it sells. Is it readers fault if other authors write unpopular stuff? "Royal Road" is my guilty pleasure. Almost everything there conforms to that quoted scheme but even among mountains of crap there exist various degrees of quality. That said the popularity isn't strongly correlated to that - checking 2 authors I follow one has $300/month on Patreon while other $20k/month.

Or they assume they know better what the users wants than the users themselves. YouTube straight up ignores dislikes - and will show disliked video in mixes or at first place of search results.

If we give Google the benefit of doubt, maybe people just kept accidently blocking useful sites and later complained they couldn't find anything? Thought Steam deals with that perfectly: search results start with disclaimer: "8,875 results match your search. 2,053 titles have been excluded based on your preferences." - and it takes 2 clicks to go back to unfiltered results.

[0] - well, at least Gnome project follows that idea, killing any discoverability

> There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

Edit: someone already added Newag there :D

https://kolejowyportal.pl/koleje-dolnoslaskie-odpowiadaja-ne... - this is from 2022-07-06. The train owner complains that they still didn't receive information from Newagg about what was fixed when unit had to be shipped to manufacturer after it refused to start.

So the issues with 3rd party servicing were publicly known well before the smoking gun was found in firmware.

In general there always were 2 aspects affecting adblocking efficiency: 1) the ad networks want to serve the files from own servers to prevent fraud 2) the sites try to mix content and ads as much as legally possible

Google and Facebook are big enough players to break first point - that kills dns/domain based solutions like pihole. And at least Facebook works hard on second - someone once linked how "Promoted" in HTML is actually "abcdPROMrandomlettersTEDxyz", with different CSS styles for each letter - just to prevent simple CSS selector based rules for adblockers.