smayonak

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[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The permissions on their extension allows for them to read site data so they definitely could operate as a data broker. However their tos has no mention of any data sharing so you are likely correct that they just take a commission. Great site imo

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

We can frame violence in ways that justify or invalidate its righteousness.

It depends on how you define "wrong". But there are universal truths. If someone tries to kill or harm you it's considered just if you harm them in defense.

We dont know Luigi's legal defense yet but my guess is his attorney will argue self defense. If so the justice system now has to sort out whether this was self defense and in that sense it will likely be considered wrong.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

If you have multiple extensions installed honey always secretly steals the revenue from competitors without asking for consent. Most other extensions will ask if you want to activate cashback. Honey just disables their competitors and steals that affiliate revenue. It should be classified as malware

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Topcashback consistently beats honey and others out (almost all competitors beat honey btw). And they pay out and have customer support. Easily thr best way to sell your personal data to a shadowy data broker

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's been mentioned before but NYC will be using special jury screening processes to make sure none of the jurors are "terrorist" sympathizers.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

A competing viewpoint is that our health insurance system is fine and that denying people coverage and either saddling them with debt or causing their deaths is also fine. Anyone who thinks that way hasn't had to deal with a claim getting rejected. But with AI reject bots becoming more common over time everyone will. Pain can teach empathy.

Most people are fine with a little institutionalized corruption but when essential services like healthcare stop functioning they're going to get very angry. It's not so much vigilante justice as it is an insurrection against bad governance.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

As a gym rat and bicyclist i was having health issues. No drugs or alcohol. Lots of supplements.

I went oxalate free on a zero carb diet for several years and it fixed my auto immune disorder. I lost 30 pounds of muscle in the process because of a loss in appetite. I slowly readded foods into my diet. Turned out that I couldn't handle salicylates in large amounts. It's in most plants as well. 3% of the population shares my intolerance. We can't eat spices or herbs.

All humans have individual variances in our ability to process plant toxins. There's a reason why some people are more prone to kidney stones than others. It doesn't mean someone is unhealthy.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Kennedy would end up firing Allan Dulles because he had tricked Kennedy into Bay of Pigs. These guys had a reputation for misleading presidents.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

He probably didn't know. Bush shuffled Cheney off to the margins and had Rummy resign in 2006 when he realized that he had been manipulated. From then on he leaned heavily on Condoleeza Rice. But the main thing is that the Dulles brothers were long gone.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

We have to distinguish between the Dulles Brothers and Eisenhower. The brothers were two of the biggest gangsters to ever step foot in DC. Because they were allowed to run operations without the knowledge of the president and they lied and manipulated presidents is not completely clear what Eisenhower knew.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I think you're right and that I've horribly misunderstood how this data is collected and used. According to their yearly report, mozilla's advertising revenue is explicitly not drawn from user data and is only related to tiles and default search engine sponsorships. The fact that they are not selling this information is heartening and it inspires confidence that they have not flipped on the ad money spigot.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate your informed response but no system other than advertising-abstinence is fool proof.

Im saying this as a supporter. My browser of choice is firefox and I send them money regularly. And I understand their need to generate more revenue. But there has never been a company who has sold customer data discretely. My understanding is that every piece of data that's sold can be de anonymized when combined with other data sets. And the data is horsetraded until it gets into some very marginal actors' hands.

Mozilla's need for money is largely driven by massive mismanagement. It should have been fully funded in perpetuity through establishing a foundation that operates off interest payments but they decided to try and build a headquarters in Mountainview. They also operate offices in some of the most expensive cities in the world. They have made expensive software aquisitions. These are not necessary and have only whetted mozilla's thirst for other revenue sources. It's guaranteed that they will look for more customer data to sell because that's the path of least resistance.

I wish them luck but I also wish they'd not chase advertising money.

 

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