"each new connected TV platform user generates around $5 per quarter in data and advertising revenue."

Fuck me, this is the amount of money that's enough motivation for them to ruin my experience and make me angry?

I guess regular users have much higher tolerance to ads than me, but our home has a strict zero ad policy.

Never use a "for-profit adblocker".

Most prominently, this includes Adblock Plus, which functions as extortion-ware, extorting payments from ad-dealers to let their ads through.

I haven't signed in with the Microsoft account in the first place.

That's "crowdsourced", i.e. manually done by volunteers on per-video basis.

"Chrome users" or "Chrome under windows users" would be closer to the truth. Still, quite a screw up.

I expect this to proceed similarly: many companies and funding dollars will burn in flames and still, the world will be a different place in a decade thanks to this technology.

Ads were already there for years - for Facebook, TikTok, Candy Crush, and who knows what else.

I would say this is embarrassingly unprofessional, but the truth is this is just normal these days - normalized by Facebook and Android - and I'm just old and used to better software.

I switched to Linux the same year they appeared.

...in mice.

Nissan also detects you having sex in the car and phones the info home.

Nevermind that the terminals were not free and were paid for mostly by European allies. Duo of fuckers will leverage them anyway.

You're not paranoid, that's what dead canary means.

That's a fucking Google, an advertising company, for you.

NY Times has a freaking great data visualisations, they are (were?) employing a wizard in this space, doing custom extensions on d3.js.

This is not hot air though, so the cited source does not apply.

Edit: but it does link to more relevant study towards the end, comparing different means of hand drying.

"Post from last year", lol. He admitted to be a sneaky fuck right in the first sentence.

They have already practically ended it. The official process makes the user jump through so many hoops - registering account, using it for 30 days (!!!), installing their app, begging for unlock through it, getting random errors which the official support refuses to explain (!!!) and only after that having the chance to try to hit the daily unlock request window which lasts less than one minute each day (!!!) - that it is practically non existent. Fuck the fucking fuckers.

Fucking russians. (that's not jumping to conclusions, that's pure Bayes).

Yes, except google is slowly killing Termux with a thousand cuts, while they will kill this only after a few years.

No, it should obviously take you to "pay us enormous amount of money every month" page first.

Yea I remember the "pedo guy" well enough. That was the first time I've noticed musk is well fucked in the head.