Because they need them for their stupid election campaigns, surveys and crap like that.
Yeah. They sure did a great job surveying "accurately" every election cycle.
Readit NewsMeatBro commented on CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms krebsonsecurity.com/2024/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I feel like when there is financial malfeasance, we find enough cases of it in the wild to document that it has really happened. Whether it's Enron, or stories of lobbyists and politicians acting in self interest in ways that break the law, or even just municipal officials embezzling, we have known cases of that. So if you ever have the feeling that big financial transactions might be ethically questionable, you can at least know that such things have happened in the wild.
I think the same is true of war crimes in wars - enough of the worst type of things have really happened, and been documented, so there's nothing on the face of it that is outlandish if you heard a new report of such a thing.
But how about deaths in suspicious circumstances like this one? Is there a historical record of these kinds of things being carried out, especially in the western world, in circumstances where the motive is corporate self-interest? What's the most clear cut case we have of something falling in that falls into (for lack of a better term) the Michael Clayton category?
Tommy Chui, cigarette smuggling.
[1]: https://www.icij.org/investigations/big-tobacco-smuggling/ba...
MeatBro commented on AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/belter
What if I appeal for a patent made by an AI made by myself. Seems fair to me.
MeatBro commented on I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff p.haavard.me/407... · Posted by u/ilkkao
False, see this snippet from #freenode:
15:04 <@Fuchs> as it is clearly stated in my letter, this was a draft
that was not supposed to be published, but a draft from
a colleague that linked to mine got indexed by a search
engine and found
15:04 <@Fuchs> as of right now, none of us resigned, freenode is still
ran by the same volunteers that ran it for the past 2
decades, and the rest is rumours and hearsay, we'll gladly
officially communicate when we can, until then I'd suggest
taking any rants, pastebins, articles and the likes with a
grain of saltRant: Freenode advertises a specific religion on CTC message of the day, definitely hate that.
It's so hard to find Bangla music/songs, so this was very helpful!
I much prefer a really good and feature full browse and search functionality rather than recommendations. Youtube has really poor search and even worse browsing ability.
The browse would be good if it wasn't location based
I've never been into recommendations and I find most are awful. TikTok is addicting but it's all rubbish content.
I feel like I am in the minority in how I use YouTube. If someone shows me a video I'll watch it, but I don't browse YouTube.
Many people nowadays use client apps and invidious for YouTube.
It amazes me that advertising companies have been able to brainwash companies into paying more for "targeted ads". Usually I spend a few days doing research into whatever big purchase I plan to make, then for the next 6-12 months I get spammed with ads for that product on every platform. It's such a waste of their money and my time.
Just use ublock origin(firefox). If on apple then safari should be good too.
I've said it many times now: people should be avoiding "the algorithm" as much as they can on streaming and social media sites.
On Facebook "avoiding the algorithm" entails creating a friends list of all your friends, then using the link to that list as a portal into facebook. Posts and shares are listed in chronological order without anything missing (which is absolutely NOT true for the normal news feed, even when "chronological order" is selected). No "so-and-so commented on this" or "so-and-so liked that". Just posts and shares. Scroll through the feed until you recognize something, and you're done.
On youtube, you really should be going straight to subscriptions first. If you want to look for recommendations that's perfectly fine, you can go to the home page... but don't go there by default.
On reddit, I recommend using /r/all as a portal with some of the more obnoxious subreddits blocked.
I'm aware that what you see is still influenced by the algorithm in these examples, but the impact is reduced by a lot.
Browse with intention. Make deliberate choices. Don't just let the algorithm lead you around.
Remember, "the algorithm"s on these sites aren't designed for your benefit. They're designed to increase the site's metrics. More clicks. More time on that website.
I think client apps can help a lot in all of these cases. Like newpipe for YouTube or infinity for reddit. They clear out tracking as much as possible and let you browse without logging in.
But the website of all these site feels useless and slow to me. Recommendations were good on yt, but I think they stopped it during the election. So, I defaulted to newpipe and freetube.