The way those franchises work is that they need to pay a fixed percentage to the US parent company as license fees for the use of the brand. So no matter how much of it is locally produced, bottled, consumed, etc., part of everything goes to fund the US government (through taxes on the profit of the US company). A total boycott of whichever regional outlets you have is the only way to cut the money flow.
My thoughts exactly, what a heap of crap. Tom's Guide used to be one of the good ones out there, real shame.
What I was wondering though is if they detect browser plugins through some public ID - how difficult is it to change those? In Firefox it's absolutely trivial, you can simply download the extension, open it as a zip file, and then edit the files inside with a text editor and change the ID.
Haven't used chrome for years, but extensions used to be javascript files just as well, so I doubt they are that hard to edit. Unless they found a way to block installations from local files and enforce their shop, no idea if that's a thing.
Oh wow, dial-up in Germany died 20+ years ago. I'm surprised that's still a thing. Well, was. But until now is really staggering. I wonder what you could even still do over such a connection, considering that even messenger services and email now use 3-5MB just completing the server handshake.
I call bullshit on this one. Their only "source" is an alleged video on Twitter, with a link that doesn't resolve (anymore?).
I'm not going to deal with insurance if I can prevent a theft in the first place.
Really good so far, else I'd never made it to book 3. I tend to drop books nowadays if I don't really get into them right away.
In other words, the law works as intended.
And people wonder why I use my key toget into the car.
Well the left one has a very visible pattern, hence I picked it.
Left one, I didn't even see the etching. Might as well not be there.
Back to the stone age it is!
I'll take Erdinger Dunkel over Augustiner every day, but else I fully agree.