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by eru 1143 days ago
> How should I, as a consumer, have voted against this with my wallet, before it happened?

That's what long term reputation is for.

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So which desktop processor manufacturer other than the mentioned two do you recommend? ARM?
Me!

I happily resell you Intel processors at a 10x markup but you get a ten year warranty that I'll replace your processor with a new one of no worse specs, if similar vulnerabilities get discovered.

Details to be negotiated.

(More seriously: you don't need a new manufacturer. Someone else can do the warranty at a price.

That's actually what eg Apple Care: if a part inside your device catches on fire, Apple will replace it, even though they did not necessarily manufacture that part.

I have no clue whether their particular policy covers the vulnerabilities we are talking about. But you can easily imagine a variant of such an insurance policy that does.)