Volvo tried at one point.

Why did they need to tear it apart to discover the advantage was government funding? It this just a click bait headline?

It is possible that any developer could just say “none” even if the extension does collect data? If it has to be manually disclosed, this won’t stop malicious actors. Only trustworthy extension developers would disclose this.

The wording of the body text is equally stupid.

President Trump is restoring sanity to at least one small part of the federal regulations,…

Sanity? Really?

Yes, just because the source code is available doesn’t mean it is licensed for others to take. Now we have AI tools that have scraped the web for all of its content and won’t see the difference between source available, open source , and free and open source. It is possible that those who use AI tools could be unknowingly using code without the license to do so.

Now that all he major AI companies have scraped all of the YouTube videos, Google wants to prevent others from getting into the market.

This argument in this article is poor. An analogy would be:

“Because donating free food to the poor might feed future criminals, we should no longer provide free food.”

f(x)=x? In theory the water in a shower can get infinitely cold? That would be some shower that can go past absolute zero. It would be interesting to shower in a Bose-Einstein condensate.