Why would it not be profitable, it’s still user data?

It seems like everyone is forgetting that time exists, and corporations will learn from their mistakes and evolve.

Email was developed, standardized and freely distributed long before the internet became what it is today.

If email were created in this day and age it would look very different and probably fail because of corporate mismanagement (while CEOs take their golden parachutes).

Are you kidding? Lemmy itself is 100% public and easily scrapable. It’s likely easier to get data on users.

How long ago did those things happen, and what makes you think the uber wealthy capitalist owner-class hasn’t learned from their past “shortcomings”?

Why would multi-billion dollar corporations allow things like that to happen to them again?

I don’t think anyone anywhere is claiming 8GB RAM is enough for software and AI development. Pretty sure we’re talking about consumer-grade hardware here. And low-end at that.

No worries lol, explains my confusion of you bringing to Stalin lol…

Did you reply to the wrong comment? Because my comment you replied to said nothing about Stalin or Zuckerberg or any of that shit. I literally have no idea what you’re talking about.

Try again next time, and look a little bit closer. They will do everything they can to make you think you need to accept both, but there’s a reason there are two things you need to approve and why the wording is subtly different when asking approval of one vs the other.

And yes I’m talking about console games as well.

Really bad take. Take it down a notch.

And this is coming from someone who didn’t play the game until it was released on Steam due to the inaccessibility.

Graphics aren’t everything. DF is, by far, the deepest simulation game ever created. The complexity is unmatched. You should put some respect on their name.

“At that age”

Buddy, how old do you think people are when they’re supposed to start checking for prostate cancer?

Who is “us” here? Speak for yourself.

“Really guys, we just want to spend more money than we need to! This won’t stop people from smoking, we just really want to spend more money to design logos, packaging, advertising, etc.”

Come on, dude…

Right. Because it is always about money, and if their sales figures weren’t going to go down, then it seems like they’d end up saving a ton of money by completely cutting out their entire advertising budget. No need to even design a logo.

There’s a word for that, it’s called “casing.”

Obviously not “hacking,” unless they’re locked up by a computer or some shit.

A hacker using software like that to test vulnerabilities seems similar to me in some ways.

Very Cronenberg

Wait is CDRomance also under threat? Ugh

There are also (somewhat hidden) “hard modes” where the only indicator that you’re in a different mode is that the badge number next to the uBlock icon changes color.

You can have it block all third party scripts by default for every website, or even go all out and basically use it like noscript. Pretty much breaks every individual website though but you can choose individually what to let through and save it based on domain (I believe) so you really only need to do it once.

10? Try (currently) 98 across 9 windows, 2 desktops.\

Just ew… I will never understand this shit. Tabs aren’t fucking bookmarks.

And I would take it as a bad sign when the people who are supposed to be the most tech savvy in the building can’t be bothered to take 3 seconds to change that.

This has kind of come around full circle… Video games went from what you described to literally just not letting you start the game until you approved every EULA that popped up before the main menu.

They got us so used to just clicking OK because we knew the only alternative was not playing the game at all.

Now they have several types of EULAs at the start of a game, and usually the "data sharing’ one is separated out and not needed to be approved in order to start the game (probably thanks the GDPR if I had to guess off hand). But people have gotten so conditioned to the idea of “just click OK over and over so I can start playing” that they don’t realize there’s two separate EULAs there, and only one is required to be accepted to play the game.