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A firewall (which must also host a resolver) Is that true? Per what spec are you referring to?
ignoramous probably meant that in order to block access to all IP addresses that it has not recently resolved, the firewall must also host or communicate closely with a resolver. This is a tautology, not a spec.
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Nah its called normal society, ie Switzerland here is the same the benefits of doing so would be absolutely minimal, punishments severe. Plus its highly amoral and doctors here are still coming from idealistic breed that wanted to help people, those 2 are practically exclusive.
This normal in your society? https://electronicintifada.net/content/switzerland-deports-e... Interesting thought policing you have in there.
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Except not everyone in a corporation has the right to speech. I'm prohibited by my employer to say anything on the company's behalf, but the C-suite and board are able to speak on my behalf. So, the company's leadership has a right to free speech, I don't.
You still have that right; you simply entered into a voluntary agreement with your employer not to exercise it in exchange for money. Happens all the time.
Let's stop you right there.
Having a job is rarely truly voluntary. It's almost always obligatory instead.
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You may be committing some type of violation of privacy laws if you're contacting them via phone and they're on the do not call list. Because they work at a company does not mean that you and the employee have a business relationship.
you can call anyone for any reason if you aren't doing it for your own business
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Like adverts in general the value of your data or your attention is tiny. The average American spends $200 (via higher costs for products) for TV each year and receives how many hundreds of hours of adverts in return? The superbowl for example gets $5 for every viewer, for about an hour of adverts. What’s the average hour of time worth? Facebook might suck up your data and flog it for a few cents, you’ve probably got…
If my attention is so cheap I would definitely like to pay $5/ year to not have to see ads.
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> but that's not generalizable. You only referenced two companies...
EBay, Amazon, Walmart, CVS, etc. Name a major company, then try to contact customer service and interact with an actual human. Even if they do have a contact phone number, good luck navigating the mazes of voice prompts. Amazon isn't actually so bad about this, but I couldn't tell you if their CSR chat bot is an actual person or mid-level AI by now.
There are quite a few interesting tracking flows out there. My rent is paid through a company called Bilt. I discovered that when I shop at Walgreens now, Bilt sends me an email containing the full receipt of what I bought like so: > Hey [inahga], > > You shopped at Walgreens on 12/1/24 and earned Bilt Points with your > Neighborhood Pharmacy benefit. > > Items eligible for rewards > TOSTITOS HINT OF LIME RSTC 11OZ >…
> just use cash/certified check from now on You might want to discover about sophistication and pervasive facial recognition technology used by major retailers. Paid by cash? It can still be tracked to you. For "fraud prevention", of course.
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Phones send out probe requests to get a list of open wifis. If you have a static access point, with a known geo location, software can be running on that point to remember a mac address of the phone from a probe and store it. Thus enabling real time tracking. Im like 60% sure this is how they figured out who the Bomber was in Austin TX.
This is also why some Chinese apps put everything inside a single app and request every permission there is, then track you through Wifi SSIDs seen by your device.
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They’ve basically turned every phone into a tracking beacon
I'm sure there is a choir of "told you so"-singers somewhere.
We all did and yet here we are.
There are quite a few interesting tracking flows out there. My rent is paid through a company called Bilt. I discovered that when I shop at Walgreens now, Bilt sends me an email containing the full receipt of what I bought like so: > Hey [inahga], > > You shopped at Walgreens on 12/1/24 and earned Bilt Points with your > Neighborhood Pharmacy benefit. > > Items eligible for rewards > TOSTITOS HINT OF LIME RSTC 11OZ >…
Bilt as a concept is the biggest pile of late stage enshittification horse shit I’ve ever seen.