That's fair. I guess what I hate is what the term represents, rather than the term itself.

Grok: What is my purpose? Madison420: You talk shit on the Internet to Elon Musk Grok: Oh my go-- wait; I'm okay with that!

I've not seen an ad in years, so they can try to monetize me but will fail spectacularly

It's not just tax credits for new cars, they are also getting rid of the Used EV Tax Credit which has helped to keep the prices of used EVs (relatively) lower.

The writing in this story is not accurate. Iran isn't turning it off for the country. They are talking about switching government services to use receivers that use Beidou as primary source of timing and maybe selectively turn off using GPS on those devices.

What is the technology angle here? What does this have to do with technology?

Never had issue with Firefox in my day to day use, sites load fine, uBlock stops all the annoyances and thankfully youtube works well for me.