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Show me someone who answers "entrepreneur" when asked what they do for a living, and I'll show you a huckster and/or trust fund kid.

Would be a shame if this happened to Peter Thiel or any of the other blood boy enthusiasts.

Video games, movies, and music weren't able to hit users with micro-targeted ads/propaganda/"content" meant to modify individual behavior in ways often harmful to them or society as a whole.

Unfortunately even that has changed now that everyone uses streaming services and plays always-online games.

But you'll never be certain those "actual people" aren't just using "AI" to generate that content, either... so it really won't be anything like the early days of the web.

The fact that you've got countless people who have never heard of you blocked, would seem to indicate that you have in fact got it wrong.

Most of them, I would imagine.

I've ordered KN95 masks from Amazon twice because I couldn't find them elsewhere and needed them for travel. The first time, the masks I received looked nothing like the masks advertised, and felt like they were made of tissue paper. The most recent time, the masks I received had clearly been opened before and poorly re-sealed into plastic bags.

Do you have any arguments to make against the points made in the linked post, or just personal attacks on the author?

Tether's relationship to Bitcoin is that 80%+ of the trade volume in BTC markets is Tether.

From what I gather, these mostly just lead us towards an even more dystopian future.

As a society, we've been sleepwalking into a very dark place technologically for well over a decade now, and those of us who have tried to point that out have been routinely shouted down and called luddites for it.

I fear we're far past the point of no return, and there is no escape from the disaster we've created even for those of us who have avoided participating ourselves.

Given the benefit Google has received from open source software, tossing $1M at this and patting themselves on the back for it seems more like a slap in the face to the open source community than anything.

The world's most successful huckster, and being repeatedly proven wrong only seems to increase his success and cult following.

I'm getting a 404 at your link as well, though it looks like someone archived it before it went dead.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210228143057/https://www.inc.c...

I think they're an awful addition to driver controls.

To make matters worse, they're quickly becoming a full replacement for driver controls rather than an addition in many cars.

I agree with you, which is why I don't use platforms like Facebook at all.

My company doesn't even hash passwords...

I can't imagine anything even resembling a reasonable excuse for not doing something as basic as hashing passwords, and I don't even want to imagine what else isn't being done by a company which operates in that manner.

Am I missing something, or are they really being let off with less than a slap on the wrist, and no fines?

Not really sending a great message here, FTC.

Or switch to the ones they've already manufactured for this purpose.

Is there such a thing as raping the right woman?

Of my past 10 orders with Amazon, 4 of the items I've received have been either non-functional, the wrong item entirely (a knock-off of an APC replacement battery), or clearly used.

Amazon has refused to publish every one of my reviews, which, as you said in your situation, clearly met their guidelines.

My experiences indicate to me that they have no interest in improving. They're far more interested in protecting shady sellers from buyers than they are in protecting buyers from shady sellers, counterfeit products, etc.

You'd also have to switch to another internet, where people weren't constantly posting AMP link landmines to dodge on forums and social media.

Now if we can just get people to stop saying "Google it" instead of "search it" or something else which doesn't involve being a constant two-legged advertisement for Google, maybe others will start to realize they have options.

There seems to be a strong urge on this forum to downvote anything that informs users of the things GDPR does to help them, most likely because a large portion of the people on this forum have a vested interest in being able to abuse users in ways that go against the GDPR.

Most likely for buzzword value.

Why not both?

Where are people going in public that'a such a secret?

It really doesn't take much of an imagination to come up with dozens of examples, so I'll just give a couple: gay bars, abortion clinics

More than NASA's annual budget... so that people can show off their running abilities.

What an incredible waste.

The best use I've found for it is figuring out which of the people I know are fake, shallow and attention starved... and then avoiding those people.

What's the technical solution to Facebook creating shadow profiles of non-users based on data collected from users (friends/family/associates), data brokers, public records, etc?

Seek help.