With respect to those numbers, I remember this recent accusation of price-fixing across 2019-2021 [0] that might have an effect, although I also have reservations about how much to trust anything coming out of the rotting US Department of PresidentsPersonalLawyers these days.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-worlds-largest-container...

Rather, they are stuck unable to do that much better, unwilling to admit (especially in a way that might spook shareholders) that it's a hallucination-machine all the way down. They're playing for time and market-share while hoping some unspecified and inherently-unpredictable new discovery arrives which will be compatible with their existing infrastructure and investments.

I wish I knew how to change the direction of browser-culture, back towards the days where remote sites were expected to provided data instead than code, and the exceptions were rare and involved mindful human decisions of trust.

As opposed to a world where you're constantly hitting "please enable ultra-javascript to continue" and people are always creating sandboxes and VMs to wrap around the matryoshka-doll layers of older "do unsafe things safely" measures.

They are another kind of "soft" cap, pitched as an automatic convenience to the customer... But in practice they are too-often deceptive and harmful.

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/are-banks-the-...

Time-code apps or passkeys are a different story.

1. You should be able to make backups.

2. There's nothing to intercept in plaintext.

3. The all can (unlike SMS features) be locked down by default and require a second layer of unlocking, so that they usually aren't accessible to someone who grabs your phone out of your hand.

I mean, it's not like most people have any kind of curriculum to fix those early assumptions.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4546063

1. Enter username (e.g. an email)

2. Choose from either email or SMS on file

3. Enter the code you got somehow through the respective unencrypted channel

Given that this same site is involved with bank-account details for payment, I am concerned...

Or the same browser, or the same browser-profile. For example, on my phone I have external links (from other apps) opening in incognito mode by default.

That's false. You've put your own words into their mouth to create a "sounds like China" strawman.

This is my complaint with a lot of "graphical enhancement" mods for games like Deus Ex.

Unless they touch everything, the inconsistent level of detail is worse than consistently low-res meshes/textures.

[0] The profession of Telephone Sanitiser on planet Golgafrincham.

1. Using one part of Musk's holdings to trick people into feeling optimistic about how it will do incest with another part.

2. Megalomania dreams of becoming the Tessier-Ashpools from Neuromancer with their private fiefdom.

> It's obvious why we might prefer to substitute voting or shopping for politics: they're activities you do alone. You don't have to find anyone else to do them with you. [...] Individual consumption choices don't change the world, but if you've been convinced that the only way to change the world is by voting with your wallet then when the world stays terrible, you can only conclude that your friends and neighbors have ruined by things by voting (shopping) wrong. [... and] every political disappointment in your life is down to your friends' personal defects.

[0] https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/21/purity-culture/

"Yet you participate in society. Curious!"

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/