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by p49k 5y ago
Someone still “wins” if they exit the FTC and immediately receive a highly paid lobbying job. The reality of the situation indicates that OP’s idea is likely, actually: https://www.citizen.org/article/ftc-big-tech-revol
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by p49k 5y ago
That's what FLoC is trying and failing to do according to basically every analysis, including this one. Ads can exist without having to be based on users' personal data, as they were for 100+ years before (even on the internet its
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by p49k 5y ago
That's a false dichotomy. You can have ads without tracking user activity; for example, contextual ads.
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The end doesn’t justify the means. Finding out about some cool stuff doesn’t justify the insane amount of collection of ones personal data by hundreds of companies in a manner which is basically impossible for a person to reasonably prevent
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It's directly relevant. It's an example of a large company forcing its users to learn how to implement a somewhat complicated bypass to an app store to avoid having to follow its rules, something that no one tries on Apple because
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by p49k 5y ago
Epic literally did this with Fortnite on Android, one of the largest mobile games in existence - they taught users how to download the APK and sideload the app to avoid the Google Play store.
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by p49k 5y ago
This is unrealistic. If it were easy to root an iPhone, then we would reach a situation where app developers would stop releasing necessary apps in the App Store because they want to bypass all the ethical behavior it requires. It would eff
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by p49k 5y ago
Apple’s approach is pragmatic. If they offered anyone the ability to jailbreak, you would see major app makers manipulating naive users into jailbreaking in order to bypass security, payment restrictions or similar. Even the limited options
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There is certainly no changing your viewpoint on anything. For the sake of basic human empathy, I hope that the industry starts to see things Osaka's way instead of yours.
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The reason she is paid is because she is one of the best in the world at doing one specific thing. That’s what people enjoy watching her do. The promotion of her as an athlete could focus on videos, photos and live spectatorship of the thin
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by p49k 5y ago
Perhaps she reasonably assumed that if someone pays to put your face on a billboard while wearing your product, then they are paying to put your face on a billboard while wearing your product. Transaction complete. The expectation that they
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by p49k 5y ago
Someone might want to play tennis at the highest level and at the same time only be in the "public eye" to a medium extent (spectators and broadcast of the actual match) rather than to the extreme. That shouldn't be an unreas
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by p49k 5y ago
You have to license the songs which makes it difficult and expensive. Podcasts don’t qualify for the same type of statutory licensing that online radio stations provide due to predictability of song appearances and ability to replay (radio
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by p49k 5y ago
With Klarna, any fraud that results from this incident can and will be reversed thanks to both company and government regulations. With crypto, anything but perfect opsec on the entire stack through which your money travels means potentiall
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by p49k 5y ago
This might be true at the very low end of the market, but most sunscreen brands that people care about enough to have loyalty are uniquely sourced products.
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by p49k 5y ago
What is Markit? The site itself doesn’t explain the concept very well and the content is behind a login.
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by p49k 5y ago
It definitely matters. Watch some of the teardowns of power adapters on YouTube: they look and work almost identically and you’d likely never tell the difference, but one is much more likely to set your house on fire if it malfunctions.
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by p49k 5y ago
No, you can’t. If you call them they won’t answer and will just write you on WhatsApp to ask what you wanted. If you SMS, no reply or they will reply on WhatsApp. One reason is because a lot of phone plans include few or no calls/SMS b
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by p49k 5y ago
In some countries, you can't perform essential tasks such as booking a doctor's appointment without Whatsapp. It's not that simple.
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by p49k 5y ago
There is no one lighthouse number. The site is likely using their own scores that are based on (but not direct averages of) lighthouse. Perhaps they give a score of 1 to the lowest site and scale up.
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Yes, but every couple days it switches back and you have to “request desktop site”.
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It’s not possible, although they can be reprogrammed so perhaps in the future someone will write a custom firmware.
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by p49k 5y ago
Not good enough, we need severe regulation. These companies are playing a game that’s unwinnable for consumers. The respectable device from Brand A you own today will auto-update 2 years from now to one with privacy-invading bloatware. You
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by p49k 5y ago
Using the app is not required to use the toothbrush. Just press the power button and use it like a normal electric toothbrush.
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Even if we're only talking about 18-29, there have been 2,100 deaths from COVID in that age group in the US already. Even in the most generous interpretation, that means that it would be at least 10 times as dangerous for someone in th
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by p49k 5y ago
The mental disease of many anti-intellectuals and conspiracy theorists is the inability or refusal to understand scale and proportion; it's the single source of an enormous amount of flawed logic. Scale and proportion is the reason. 7
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Note I said “road checks” as in arriving by car. They totally closed the border and stop basically all non-Danish license plates for inspection. They are only supposed to be able to do this for emergencies for a max of 6 months. Instead, ev
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First of all it’s entirely false that it’s just “sick and old” people affected; there are also children and young adults with immune disorders who can live somewhat normal lives today because of minor sacrifices from others such as vaccinat
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by p49k 5y ago
Seems incredibly selfish to force vulnerable people into isolation because some people allow themselves to get absorbed into conspiracy theories about a harmless vaccine. Requiring certain vaccines for travel has been something that has exi
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by p49k 5y ago
Schengen has been deteriorating for a long time. Denmark has totally ignored it and has road checks at the border for more than 5 years now and other nations have done similar (although to a less extreme extent).

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