Every single company is paying some overpaid techie somewhere to keep something online up in some way, at the very least. The decisions software engineers make in their career choices and goals have extreme and direct impacts on the economy
We aren't yet. Overpaid doesn't mean owner or power. Look at pro sports... Corporate and politicians are still in power, because corruption in those niches rarely ends in accountability; yet cases like Snowden and disgruntled techies can end up as social outlaws.
It only “leaks” your ip if you are trying to use webrtc features with a vpn, otherwise web rtc is perfectly fine to use without concern for most people.
Interesting! That's not how I read the ublock origin docs:
"Keep in mind that this feature is to prevent leakage of your non-internet-facing IP adresses. The purpose of this feature is not to hide your current internet-facing IP address -- so be cautious to not misinterpret the results of some WebRTC-local-IP-address-leakage tests found online."
That said, my Firefox 91 and Safari don't leak local IPs regardless of the ublock setting.
