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Similar background. Agree completely with your second paragraph.

You are 100% correct. The only solution is to completely ban them from operating in the country or make it economically unviable for landlords via the taxation system.

We are a very long established bricks and mortar Irish retailer that chose to go online with Shopify and use Shopify Payments for online transactions only at the beginning of the pandemic. Today, we were given essentially given a couple of days to provide invoices from all our suppliers and letters of authorisation from each of them.

We have a lot of suppliers all over Europe and this is the 14th July. To say that we are angry would be a gross understatement.

but not confined by national borders.

Store everyone's data in Europe then and do your data transfers in the other direction.

Completely agree. Just like we have financial audits for a reason, we also need some form of algorithm audit process. Present day algorithms optimised for engagement and ad revenue growth are a clear and present danger to democracy as we have known it.

Because the AI is designed to maximise revenue and profit growth and is otherwise completely indifferent to societal consequences.

Got fed up clicking it away, deleted the app and moved my family to Signal.

RSS is by far the best and easiest way to keep up with sources you want to follow. Using RSS to get updates from curated Twitter lists is the only way to just get updates from accounts you want to follow on Twitter and maintain your sanity. I recommend NetNewsWire.

Without paid links, neither Google nor Facebook would exist. A Google ad is a paid link. The only difference in this case is that Google is the one getting paid. Ditto for Facebook. Both have become much more agressive in recent years in making sure that any clicks off their platforms are being paid for. Organic search no longer really exists for any search that can be monetised by Google, especially on mobile and some Governments are waking up to this.

Thats the effect of the enormous cruise ships depositing thousands of tourists in the morning and picking them up again later that day.

Yes it’s correct. VW investing very heavily in MEB platform. ID3 is great fun to drive but VW have much to do on software side.

This Google squeez also happens when a company spends on offline ad campaigns as often the first action in response to an ad is to type the company name into the browser. The searcher then arrives at the Google gate where friction is applied to divert a percentage of those to click on competitor online ads. Google is also taxing global offline ad spend.

Facebook throwing a temper tantrum is a great promotion for Apple.

Bunq.

Devonthink.

You care about users privacy? Judging by how passive aggressively Google tries to prevent us actually logging out of a Google Account, you are having a laugh.

+1 for DevonThink, both on mac and ios.

No it didn't. I never stopped using RSS. Today I use Netnewswire and Feedbin.