re: #264 erik_t

That’s absolutely false; many (if not most) regular posters have expressed exactly the same feeling.

We may have to agree to disagree, I’m thinking of Around the time of the Charles grand reformation and prior. So if i painted too broad a brush, sorry bout that.

How would you remove this capability, other than forbidding its use? What would that even mean, exactly? The un-invention of the database?

That’s the problem, there is no way to stop the collection other than to prevent it in the first place. which won’t matter, because, they’ll collect it anyway and tell us it’s for our own good.