So they keep enough for the pre-builds, and if there’s no stock over, mark them as “sold out” on the shop. That’s how everyone else does it.

Time to create a new anti-bossware product, and call it Worker. Maybe it could be peer-to-peer to help propagate newly identified Bossware signatures. Some kind of worker’s collective as it were.

Vernor Vinge has entered the chat

The answer is yes, then. I haven’t looked for existing solutions but I know bluetooth buttons exist, and you can probably even vibe-code something to do it for you based on an existing adblocker, even if that has to run a headless firefox so it can run ublock origin or something in the background and use that to tell the timestamps of the ads. You have a turing-complete machine. It can do anything.

The evolutionarily stable state is a small percentage more ads than people will tolerate. That’s just maths.