One word. Tesla.

It became the Apple of automobiles and everyone was rushing to copy them. Then came the fall of Elon and everyone is realizing how full of shit the company is.

Well, this is The Register. Not exactly a paragon of stellar reporting here.

What is in your email isn’t the only data that sending one can generate. There’s the IP address where it was sent from and where it’s going, there’s the time of day it was sent, there’s a load of metadata attached they can read and glean information about you and your recipient. And there’s advertisement opportunities in the interface that many services use to collect info on you. There are so many ways to collect data on you through your interactions online it’s not even funny.

But yeah, keep pretending like you’ve found the only mail service that doesn’t collect any data on you at all if it helps you cope.

I loved Allo. I was really depressed to have to use Whatsapp after Google cancelled it. And one of my favorite things to do was use my Google rewards points to buy music.

And they wonder why no one invests time and interest in any of their new “experimental” products.

Do you honestly believe that there is a mail service out there that does not record data on you?

Google: people weren’t using it.

The People: you cancel literally everything you create, so why should we bother?

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It’s cause he’s not the one who’s actually making these things. He’s just the guy who provides money to make these things.

P.S. if someone could invent a predictive text algo that can distinguish between cause and cuz, that would actually be an amazing innovation. /rant

I forgot about that angle. That should be an amusing lawsuit. Hopefully it takes another few bi££ion from his $orry a$$.

Microsoft: our new windows comes with not only a key logger but and EVERYTHING logger. Isn’t that great?!?!

Users: WTF, we have antivirus for the sole purpose of keeping that shit off our computers!!!

Microsoft: too late, it’s integrated. What are ya gonna do? Switch to Linux? (Laughs maniacally)

To think this is a problem with just Amazon is silly. This is every American corporation. The executives of every major corporation in this country treat themselves very very well on company dimes while their workers all languish in starvation wages. The only way to fight this is to raise the minimum wage to something that is livable for the average worker. The government needs to force these companies to behave. They will never and I mean abso-fucking-lutely never choose to treat their workers with respect and dignity by paying them a decent living wage.

And the politicians that are in all of their pockets will never ever go against their corporate masters. The only way to make them listen is to get every single American to acknowledge that this is something that is needed and then push their politicians to do it or threaten their jobs by voting for someone else. This goes for both Democrats and Republicans, not quite equally but there’s definitely a few Democrats that need to be replaced.

What do you think the actor’s strike was about? And what do you think one of the key agreements the actors wrung out of the studios was? They were not about to allow their likenesses to be sold for all of eternity for pennies on the dollar.

No matter how similar the voice is to Scarlett Johansson’s, it would still sound fundamentally different. But there are tricks that you can use to alter the pitch and range of a voice to make it sound more like a specific person and that’s probably what they did.

How is this news? Reddit has been doing this for literally years.

I don’t get why, if these people hate Reddit so much and they want the IPO to fail, why are they still using the platform?

Why do people still use Xwitter even though that entire platform has become a wasteland of bigots, assholes, and authoritarians?

It’s not actually fascism, it’s modern feudalism. The push for a more totalitarian government in all of the countries you mention is being funded by the super rich who want the working class to stay firmly under their thumb. And the plebes who are voting for the oligarchic candidates are really just voting to become serfs to their new lords and masters.

And when we went to YouTube music one of the records I bought disappeared from my uploaded music too.

Yeah, that’s why I made sure to download every single album I bought. Digital rights are a joke.

I wish we had Google Play Music again.

I liked the fact that I could take my Google survey money and buy albums on that service. It’s pretty irksome that they cancelled it.

You are saying things that audiophiles just cannot comprehend. The fact that most people just don’t give a shit that the audio quality of a recording is sub par is mind boggling to them.

Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music.

Meanwhile I’ve been paying the same $4.99 for Pandora’s simple commercial free service for the last 10 years. I can’t select individual songs to play, it just plays random songs based on my channel choices, but it works fine for me. Anything I specifically want to listen to I’ll just look up on YouTube.