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Facebook was the same. A company would hand them a token for a visitor that went to their site like say Amazon. They then tell Facebook if you see that visitor token show them an ad for this vacuum cleaner. No information ever traded hands except some anonymous id and money.

But I have had places actually sell my information. Comcast Various Banks The State of California

I had a weird last name attached to Comcast never used it anywhere elae. Started getting mail from various companies for Rev WeirdLastname

I registered an LLC, all these compliance companies now send me mail. Thanks California

Tech companies not so much they just target ads and I can block those

Feel like lemmy is more like usenet than a forum

100 years of inflation has destroyed the purchasing power of the poor and middle class. If your mam and pop does not grow 2% a year its a shrinking business and eventually there is nothing left. Big corps seem to make it work by bending the rules. But the little guy gets screwed. The rich tax rate is like the murmur show to distract us from losing everything of value.

I haven’t lost anything on any of my systems using zfs.

I was using it on some thumb drives. Both drives went bad but snapshots I had everything

ugh hate all that stuff

As someone with a twin with a completely different personality the idea of horoscopes has always been sily

I was talking about the starting of new projects

But disposal/storage of waste is baked in to the cost of nuclear. The economics of solar and wind don’t include those which is why we have windmill trash heaps

holy crap

starlink is pretty good.

If we required the recycling cost to be covered in the purchase of solar cells and wind mill blades would this still be true.

tell them large marge sent you!