Google is accused of relying on pieces of its code within websites that use its analytics and advertising services to scrape users’ supposedly private browsing history and send copies of it to Google’s servers. Google makes it seem like private browsing mode gives users more control of their data, Amanda Bonn, a lawyer representing users, told Koh. In reality, “Google is saying there’s basically very little you can do to prevent us from collecting your data, and that’s what you should assume we’re doing,” Bonn said.

Andrew Schapiro, a lawyer for Google, argued the company’s privacy policy “expressly discloses” its practices. “The data collection at issue is disclosed,” he said.Another lawyer for Google, Stephen Broome, said website owners who contract with the company to use its analytics or other services are well aware of the data collection described in the suit.

So, Chrome specially let their tools track you adding the into secret white list, but not any competitor or site author. Typical monopoly thing.

Lot of nice ideas, like changeable ports, it is just small (big!) issue.

It is small startup that won't be able to keep up even to initial promise at 99% probability, we are not talking about releasing upgrades.

Also most things are clearly made by designers and lack board protection from static via user hands, for example.

The U.S. and China led the growth in global defense spending, which hit a new high in 2020 despite the economic stress brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, a report said Thursday.

In its annual report on military power, the International Institute for Strategic Studies said total military expenditures added up to $1.83 trillion in 2020, a 3.9% increase over the previous year. “This came despite the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent contraction in global economic output,” the London-based think tank said in a statement.

The United States remained the top spender, accounting for 40.3% of global spending. But China and other Asian powers concerned about Beijing’s rise also spent more, albeit at a somewhat slower pace than in 2019 because of the pandemic, IISS said in its “Military Balance” report.

In Asia, overall spending was up 4.3%, down from the 4.9% growth rate of the previous year. Beijing boosted expenditures by $12 billion, or 5.2 %, with total spending at $193.3 billion.

Only army and tech/media giants are holding US now, and one can not exist without the other.

China-based power MOSFET and other power device suppliers have already raised their quotes by 10-15% recently amid tight foundry capacity, and will make another upward price adjustments, according to industry sources.

And it is same across many things, not MOSFET's only.

Mordor must take measures to reduce its dependence on the American currency, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. According to him, steps need to be taken due to new possible US sanctions.

“We need to isolate ourselves from the US financial and economic system in order to get rid of dependence on this toxic source of constant hostility ... We need to reduce the role of the dollar in any transactions,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg.

Biggest catch here is that all USD accounts of our banks (including all personal account of clients) are located in US banks in reality. So blocking this money is possible and as we have huge amount of USD personal savings it can be big hit.

Mordor is one of the most liberal countries in this regard for now, with lot of people having savings in USD, EUR and lot of other currencies. As leading banks here have superb internal bank software and apps - it is very easy to do, including fast transfers and access to low fees exchange on FOREX or alike.