Summary: Earlier today in Daily Links we included about 5 very shallow articles (except this one; see the 17 comments in there; no matter how much the EPO's management lies and bribes the media, the "court of public opinion" has made up its mind); Working 'from' Munich over compulsory 'ViCo' is hardly regaining one's independence, it's all about optics
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it