I think other countries are a lot more open to self deprecation as part of their humour / culture. Not saying there aren’t some examples of this in America, it just doesn’t seem to be as prevalent as in British comedy for example.

How about a law that if the service is no longer provided then the company needs to provide a means to unlock the device?

That way companies can still have their subscription stuff, but once they inevitably stop supporting the product it doesn’t become useless.

I think you’re being down voted because context should be used sparingly. You can pass data back up the parent chain through prop functions.

For God’s sake? God isn’t on LinkedIn.

Chrome has dominant market share. If this takes off and Firefox refuses to adapt some websites might just become completely inaccessible.

Right now websites can only make an educated guess because the ads don’t load, they don’t know whether you’re running a blocker or if you’re human.

Combine a more reliable mechanism with the guise of making the web safer and it might be more widely adopted; sites might refuse to load entirely until the check passes. This might mandate having any extensions disabled that can interfere with the content loaded by the site, this goes beyond ad blockers - could also be accessibility or other UI related enhancements.