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This is something I've wondered... Do all Facebook/Google employees drink the Kool aid? Are there no privacy proponents?

Rule-based ad blocking limited to 30k, as stated in the article. That's why people are upset.

Extreme moderation that makes conversation as boring as possible. That's how subreddits like /r/science stay sane.

Because cost is prohibitive.

How would it look if someone else got the patent and completely blocked Google? It's not even a question for large companies. The issue is this archaic patent and copyright system …

Never underestimate the power of fake internet points.

Not in America

It upsets me a lot how these financial institutions have complete power over us. God forbid a bank writes a loan to a scammer in your name, cause to them it's your fault. Absurd!

A consenting adult pays another consenting adult with more experience to do a life threatening task together. One dies. How is this not okay? What are you expecting? For people to …

The point of the crystal clear rules is to reduce how much the human operator needs to think about what they're doing. Should you teach your workers every legal nuance they need to…

Snapchat is not a "dick pic network" and if you've read the article maybe you could understand how someone can have a personal connection to a website, it's users, and the culture …

Why would they shut down all their locations at once, losing hundreds of thousands in income, if not for the media and social attention it would receive? Simply put, why close busi…

The fact that they're doing it all on one day at the same time implies it's mostly about the PR

Sounds like your life has been gracious to give you many different experiences. I think the distaste is mostly from people who've worked their lives in an office job. Yeah it's cak…

The fear comes from exactly that. People aren't worried about targeted advertising. People are worried that swathes of their data isn't "theirs" anymore and can suddenly be used ma…

Wait, what?? I can inject my own Javascript into Google ads? How is this done?

Seattle area here. All my life I remember waiting in lines 10-20 minutes if you go to a store on a busy day (fri/sat/sun). It's just simple math sometimes where there's so many peo…

Costs $1 when the same can be accomplished with a native web app. Seems like a quick cash grab rather than "art" or anything.

if you have an extra raspberry pi laying around you can install an ad blocker for your entire network with pi-hole.

I'm an Instagram user that genuinely enjoys clicking on a lot of ads - to buy dumb cheap stuff. Pins, clothing, general apparel gets sent to me and it's exceedingly obvious when th…

As soon as those computers are cheaper than human labor, of course it makes sense. I wonder what our idea of low skilled jobs will be in the coming future.

You think they're not working on this kind of stuff already? How many of us have an ez-pass on our car?

Sending a tweet with intent to physically hurt someone, yes. Shouldn't it be?

Not really disingenuous when the point was he was looking at his "watch" and then calling plays. Looking at your phone every time would be an obvious tell.