This and the porn thing have been massively invasive in terms of privacy. It’s so transparently just building a database of facial data. It doesn’t even make an attempt to comprehensively block everything on the internet, or realistically enforce compliance.

Aha no they actually stopped that about a decade ago iirc? It was a fairly noticeable shift, I was working in a small development environment at the time.

It’s part of the reason TVs are so cheap today, they can serve you ads. You can technically find displays that don’t have ads, but they’re far more expensive. Better to just neuter a smart tv for personal use.

I’ve had a similar suspicion actually, but it’s also possible they’re on some incomprehensible level of incompetence.

Fuck man turns out all money is fake this is bullshit I want a redo

Hell yeah dude, good luck with it!

If it helps, chaos theory still slaps really hard. Highly recommend a replay if it’s been a while.

Oh actually are they? I admit I assumed they were doing the standard bullshit of everything is free to get you integrated, then they start charging. Actually maybe that already happened and this is the result of that.

How would that even work as well? The ads will be in the website, doesn’t most stuff run through API calls? If you force everyone to start paying per call, the business model falls apart instantly.

Make it less shit dumbass

Dude I think at this point you’re medically required to write that fanfiction.

Hey so question, how come we have to push so hard for a child porn machine to be called a child porn machine?

Like a president but good?

Feels like most trending tech these days. I’m so tired.

Ranked matchmaking

Oh absolutely, the strategy has always been to secure the market, make it difficult to leave the service, and jack up the profit. The only thing we can do is recognise it happening and work to make alternatives available, work on our own skillsets instead of relying on their tools.

Which is a shame, but the mask is off as of late, and we can’t do much about that.

I believe they get weird about local accounts on recent versions of 11, even ones that already existed. I’m not going to verify, but yeah I think the point is they’re moving towards them basically not existing.

Yeah, most of that is on purpose. They fucked the search engines.

Oh, like a laptop that unfolds into an ultra wide?

Maybe after windows 8? Last time I can remember.