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Last year, the global gaming market generated more than $200 billion in revenue

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While current news coverage focuses mainly on layoffs and studio closures, the video game industry remains is still in good shape. In fact, the gaming market set a new record in 2025. According to a report by Newzoo, the industry reached $201.6 billion in global revenue in 2025 (up 9.1% from 2024), which marks the first time in history that the $200 billion threshold has been crossed. By 2028, this total could even climb to $234 billion, according to some forecasts. The PC segment recorded a 12% year-over-year increase, reaching $43.6 billion. For consoles, revenue rose by 2.8% to $44.7 billion. Mobile revenue remains as impressive as ever, with $113.3 billion generated in 2025, a 10.7% increase. Finally, sales of full-price games and revenue from microtransactions both increased.

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New study: 12% of individuals are responsible for 50% of US beef consumption

This is the same study posted somewhere else. The survey is flawed in that they asked what people ate in the last 24 hours.

That simply means that those people ate a lot in the last 24 hours. Should have been over a week or a month to get a better distribution.

“We analyzed 24-h dietary recall data from adults (n = 10,248) in the 2015–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).”

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Over 80 Chrome Extensions Found Selling Their Users Data - And It’s All Completely Legal

The largest extensions in the network: 

• Custom Profile Picture for Netflix (200K users)

• Hulu Ad Skipper (100K)

• Netflix Picture in Picture (100K)

• Ad Skipper for Prime Video (60K)

• Netflix Extended (60K)

• Stands AdBlocker (3M users) sells browsing data to third parties for “market analytics purposes.”

•	Poper Blocker (2M users) discloses selling identifiers, browsing activity, behavioral profiles, and inferred sensitive data – including health conditions, religious beliefs, and sexual orientation, all inferred from the URLs you visit.

•	All Block, an ad blocker for YouTube (500K users), sells anonymized data “for analytical and commercial purposes.” Published by an entity called Curly Doggo Limited, based in London.

•	TwiBlocker (80K users) discloses transferring browsing data to third parties who “process or sell it for analytical purposes.”

•	Urban AdBlocker (10K users) routes browsing data and AI conversations through the BiScience data broker.

•	Career.io Job Auto Apply (10K users) states in its policy that it may use personal data collected from your resume to sell to third parties, including data brokers, for targeted advertising and profiling. A job application tool that sells your resume.

•	Dog Cuties (6K users) is a cute dog wallpaper new-tab extension. Confirmed data seller through the Apex Media network.

•	EmailOnDeck (10K users) is a temporary email service – a tool people use specifically when they don’t want to share their real information. Its policy states it may sell, rent, or share its mailing list.

•	Survey Junkie discloses selling URLs visited, clickstream data, and “modeled information” about consumer preferences to market research agencies, ad agencies, and data analytics providers.

• Dashy New Tab (10K users) has its Chrome Web Store listing marked “does not sell your data.” Its actual privacy policy marks data as “Sold or Shared: Yes.” We believe this is CCPA compliance language for standard analytics, not commercial data sales – which is why we left it out. But the contradiction between the store listing and the privacy policy is real. If a publisher’s own policy says “Sold or Shared: Yes” and the store listing says the opposite, which one should users trust?

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