Companies however exploit that and instead of just putting the icon on the home screen provide an app which allows more tracking, preventing ad blockers, avoiding the user from browsing elsewhere.

For me apps are limiting (tabbed browsing, ad blocker, ... are essential for anything serious), but others don't have that experience.

They managed for water and wastewater, which are a lot more complex than fiber.

Apache OOo is dumped by Oracle and since then didn't receive much love.

For a successful fork you need a notable amount of people engaging in the fork.

Also: Back in the days™ statements where edited by marketing people and others before publication. Now people blast out stuff on their own via "social media"

While there are exceptions with people who were lucky and were at the right spot at the right time, there is a different distribution of character traits compared to society at large.

However there are many ways to impact policy makers. From individual contact to impact on the public debate. Even a small post here may lead to people considering their vote or contacting a local or EU parliamentarian, which in sum pushes the needle. In the end they are receptive, as they need the votes by the people.

It's long and tedious and not all things go anywhere, but then again: I am just one in 450 millionand for most of those priority is to have a Job which pays the rent and food and thus I have to break it down to be relevant for them.

Before Brexit there was the 1£ Ltd. as a famous contender, which got quite attraction and lead to creation of German UG. Nowadays Estonia is advertising their quick digital registration process.

The problem is that you are still bound to the individual countries legal system and many things there aren't unified. Having to appear at an Estonian court as your books don't comply with Estonian regulation (while at the same time for tax purpose your bookkeeping have to comply to your local legislation) isn't fun.

Also people don't know those names. What is a GmbH, an A.S., an OÜ? Is that a serious business or some shady shell company far off?

In this case however the story currently is two times(!) on the front page of haackernews (which isn't a music celebrity gossip site), bringing a musician into spotlight who's career was far from its peak. Hardly any better Marketing campaign one could imagine.

Back in the day™ this worked somewhat as people who were online and a somewhat level of technical interest. Else they wouldn't have used the Internet. The average restaurant owner doesn't have that interest. They like cooking or talking to customers on the bar or something, but not doing Webdesign. Probably they only use the desktop/laptop for preparing numbers for tax purpose unless they can fully outsource that.

Maybe I can confiscate money paid for ad's or something, however that probably runs via a payment system outside my control.

So I have to punish my local companies advertising, but then it won't be my local branch of Coca-Cola advertising, but a foreign branch.

Enforcing this, without international cooperation, is tough. And currently international politics aren't in a cooperative phase for large parts.

When watching a movie one may dimthe light. Once finished one may need more lights.

When going to bed I may want to switch all lights off. When getting up it may need some extra light.

A switch on the door is nice. More switches is better. Being able to control from anywhere may be even nicer.