It’s somewhat common in Ontario. Not every street, but I’d probably see a few while driving around the city.

For me it’s always, “this is hacky as shit, but it works, and nobody will ever see it but me.”

Let Jesus take the wheel

Always write largest to smallest. That way it can be sorted easily starting with the year, then month, then day.

I think it’s less, “We’re worried people will flock to Firefox,” and more, “We could get in a lot of legal trouble for trying to force everyone onto Chrome”.

They’re going to steal your NFTs!

Somewhat related, but not really: I hear that Gen Z (in general) are worse at tech support issues than the past couple generations. The theory is that Gen Z grew up with tech that, for the most part, “just works”. Troubleshooting issues isn’t as common, and isn’t as necessary of a skill.