For US companies and its citizens, trading stock enough to send a message and make a difference is in the hand of the top X% of people. Those same people don’t have to worry about the same things we do. Their income tier makes them operate fundamentally differently. When you have a team of lawyers on call you can get a lot done quickly. For us companies depend on us deeming it not worth our time and money for a chance to right a wrong. On top of that companies are at times misusing or breaking the law for decades before they are taken to justice. And that justice is more and more just the cost of doing business.
I could go on and on, but I would rather face down one tyrant than an army of them. But the way things are going, we might be facing both soon.
If you are the owner of the site may I make a single recommendation. In the domain field set the casing to all lowercase. Depending on the device fields like that want to start with a capital letter, thus changing the output password.
Most times these companies have automatic copyright triggers on YouTube and YouTube will most of the time keep the video up, not punish the uploader, but move a portion of the proceeds to the company as payment of use. It’s happened to me a number of times when I use to make gameplay videos with non licensed music.
It’s also a logistics thing. Since we also shop online. Store want online prices to match what’s seen in store and making the two match would be a nightmare and not reasonably viable.
On the other hand thing like cars really should have an all inclusive price sticker. They already have an itemized price sticker on the car so there is really nothing stoping these sellers from putting the remaining fees and taxes on there two as that should be consistent with the same dealer location and with such low inventory.
Given that most stores weren’t printing final price pre-internet, I highly doubt this is the reason. Though I do recall some really small convenience stores not getting the memo, but amongst them it isn’t/wasnt common
If displaying post tax prices is not required by law, then it is usually a competitive disadvantage.
People will see the post tax price, compare it in their head with the pre-tax price they saw at some other store, and feel like the post tax prices store is more expensive even if this store’s final price is actually slightly lower than the other store’s price.
I am talking out of my bum here, but I think it’s a good guess.
Normally when you sign up to you a service you are also giving that service provider access to your work. If that is the case here this access would exist outside of the license listed on any given GitHub repo as a separate agreement from the general public.
Specifically, section D.4 [1] of Github's terms of service. That agreement gives them the right to parse or analyze source code. Sounds very much like it justifies training copilot.
I see the value of doing something like this but at the same time I see it being abused far more than helping for it’s intended purpose.
The issue is that it will not be limited to messages. People are not dumb, they will share information in ways that another medium is used like a word doc or online note pad then just share the decrypt password over messages. So even if this starts off with messages it will just force these people to use other means and leave the rest of us vulnerable for nothing.
I think I would be more open to this if governing bodies were to also write in extremely harsh punishment for leaks, misuse, or abuse of this system so much so that no company would dare use this as another means of gathering metrics. Nor slack on the security of the mechanism required to scan the messages. Far too long has our private information gone unchecked and when leaks happen companies claim ignorance and no or minor punishments are handed out. This mind set and way of doing business cannot transfer to encrypted data.
There are some things that maybe you would like to research but are a super private matter. Let’s say you want to research an STD you think you might have. Or let’s say your pregnant and don’t want others to know yet. Trust in a company means you trust to not share this information. Not used as possible ads for creams and baby formula. Especially if you are unsure of either and don’t want somebody else that may use the same computer to know.
For questions like this, use Tor browser. Tor clients route your connection through 3 hosts (a guard node, a relay node, and an exit node), and the last two will not know who or where you are.
Tor browser also has an incognito/private mode, at least on my Lineage Android and Ubuntu desktop. Set a desktop shortcut to incognito, and never use the mode that retains cookies.
Google does not like to talk to exit nodes, and will throw lots of captchas. If you want to search with Google on Tor, use startpage.com instead.
DDG, Ecosia, and others are really just Bing in disguise.
I'm not sure how friendly some of the other boutique search engines are to Tor. Malicious actors can use exit nodes to launch attacks, although I think safeguards have improved over the years.
I wrote an article on Tor for Linux and Android a few years back, and it has some more detail that might be useful. Let me know if you want the url.
The thing about these cookies and the privacy is that those cookies are accessible by everyone. And some websites can place cross site cookies and continue tracking you in detail just because you clicked that one link on that one website.
One reason the EU did this is to bring to light the tracking habits of websites and give some power to the user. Much like Apple did with their do not track me button on IPhone. A lot of people opted to not be tracked but before just didn’t have the option or were oblivious to being tracked to begin with. And trust me being as secretive as possible for tracking is by design. It’s scary the amount of info a website can get from your browser.
I could go on and on, but I would rather face down one tyrant than an army of them. But the way things are going, we might be facing both soon.
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