You would assume so, but then there are domains like .car/.cars/.auto/.sexy which cost more than 2000$ yearly.

Adnauseam will break when google kills of manifest v2 in a month or something

In June 2025, as of now. (Vivaldi only, other Browsers may differ, change to FireWaterLibreWolfFox regardless.)

https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/

And it can lead to stagnation. The latter didn’t happen yet

I could argue that it already did when Google abandoned JPEG XL.

Too bad that Mozilla now also owns an Ad network.

Dude is getting pegged

If you mean Germany: Depends. At my smaller university quite a few professors knew my name and others had something I would consider a friendship.

Maybe. But the blue LED was also deemed impossible by a lot of big companies. And then a guy build one. Very interesting video on that topic: https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M