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They do occasionally enforce the signal jamming laws. Do it with any regularity in a way that messes up police radio, and they will work to catch you.

I'm using Firefox with ublock origin and no problems. Maybe Voyager strips out the access token from the URL?

There's a fairly small list of names it refuses. Almost all names are ok; the author's is not.

Mostly because really messed up state on your device can keep Javascript from running.

It's buried because it's not new. They covered that back when it was first announced

Pretty much.

Light pollution hasn't really changed (though it does increase in December every year)

What has changed is a social phenomenon of people taking photos of ordinary stuff, such as planets, stars, or commercial aircraft, posting it to social media, and telling others that it's nefarious drones. This creates social contagion of the idea and action, as others do the same.

Since "mysterious object in sky" gets a lot more social media engagement than "Here's a not-very-good photo of Jupiter" the whole thing spreads.

It's really tough when you get things like a former governor posting a photo of the constellation Orion and trying to claim that it is mysterious hovering drones.

It's even worse: people who don't otherwise look up seeing stars, planets, and commercial aircraft, having no clue what they are, and assigning nefarious explanations to what they see

Only matters if it's enforced. And enforcement is literally paid for by the oil firms.

This is the third story of the NYT ran about this today. The other two covered the policy itself, and the likely health consequences