And, this cannot be overstated, fucking stupid.

Not that you’re wrong, but you can clearly see Bing in the screenshot lol.

Honestly, that sounds like both sides foolishness with extra steps. How can you be politically engaged and still think there’s a middle ground between “kill all minorities” and “don’t do that”?

It (in theory) prevents signal tampering of any kind, which would include injecting advertisements into the stream.

Are you familiar with the concept of a captive market?