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You must visit different sites than me then. It doesn't happen even on a yearly basis for me. The last time it happened was two years ago on my bank's website. And that was due to poor coding practices on their part

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"And that was due to poor coding practices on their part"

Sure, you know that, but that's the point. The average user goes "that stupid extension broke my bank website and I had to hire someone for $150 to fix it".

I had a family member get soaked for thousands of dollars worth of Geek Squad "fixes" over stuff like this. We got her an iPad and she's been happy ever since.

IMO the obvious outcome is multiple devices for different functions. A stock device for banking etc. And then a weird thing you get from your nephew, who says it will track you less for general usage. If the latter doesn't work for something (or stops working altogether), you can always do it on the full-take device.

This will grow in popularity as ever more hardware becomes manufacturer EOL, but can be kept current with Ubuntu/Lineage/pmOS (etc).

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