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That was definitely hell on my LittleSnitch "protected" laptop. I was bombarded with outgoing network connections before I closed the browser tab. I must have approved/denied several hundred connections to different sites before abandoning the effort.
One Million Checkboxes seems like a candidate:
Especially if they open the draw bridge in front of you:
One little magazine that I discovered in its later years was Micro Cornucopia. Its articles were quirky dives into (what I thought at the time were) the coolest micro computer technical topics. I just saw that Walter Bright had a few articles published in there. I need to go dig out my old copies and give them a good perusal...
CBDC is a new acronym for me... For others like me: CBDC == Central Bank Digital Currency
https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...
Reminds me of a silly skit one of my old coworkers did a while back (one of many):
Not strictly true. I regularly test push notifications on sideloaded builds at client sites. Getting provisioning profiles and certificates setup correctly (especially on all extensions) is a bit cumbersome. To get those certificates may require an Apple enterprise developer account. And the builds signed this way are not debuggable.