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Are the lower prices in the room with us right now?

And did the stores lower their prices?

Privacy ≠ Anonymity. They are not the same thing, and proton are very transparent about what they will and won’t do in this regard.

It’s likely that Apple already has age data on you because they collect all kinds of data including payment details from you. If you use any paid apple service (pay for apps on the app store, pay for music, or cloud services, use the air tags etc), it’s likely they already know your age. The reason to be worried about this isn’t because now apple has this information, but because of the progression of this information being demanded, shared, and horded by less secure age verification services. Anyone hoarding personal identifying information is a target for criminal enterprises that want that information. Apple can be hacked, but you have to evaluate your threat model and what information you’ve already given them, as well as what information is already out there on the internet about you.

Or just ignorant.

GiGo.

No. You don’t get to decide what is put on my personal computing device just because you want to force the general public to bear the burden of protecting children rather than forcing parents to do their fucking jobs.

Yeah. I often forget this one because AI isn’t replacing my job any time soon. At best maybe it could potentially be used to streamline some processes to do with tech data and work flow management (what tests and protocols get done when, and combining tests/troubleshooting steps to prevent rework). But that would have to be a very targeted and very very regulated and tested thing before it could be viable.

I think this is a case of the lesser of two evils here. Not being Elon Musk is such a low bar to clear. Their statements each time something bad happens with their products don’t bear out that things will change in a meaningful way any time soon. There are a lot of reasons I’d never ride in one of these but even putting that to the side, objectively they each seem to have significant problems with implementation that are receiving lip service instead of actual fixes.

The crazy thing is, none of these articles seem to want to admit that AI is bad. They keep making articles like this. Keep saying that approval is falling among the general populace. But when touching on why that is, there’s always some wiggle words. Always some spin. It’s never “people being forced to use it are seeing it as a detriment to them” people using it are seeing a decrease in efficacy of the results it gives for the amount of prompting required. Or people don’t like it because it’s going to have significant detrimental affects on the environment and their utilities. All of those are solid reasons for the decline in both the use of AI LLM’S and the approval of them. The cost of goods and services relating even tangentially to AI are going through the roof. The amount of slop is increasing at a furious pace, directly contributing to things like enshittification and dead Internet theory. The effect on the economy is looking to be extremely catastrophic. But oh no. It’s lack of authenticity on social media spaces that people are worried about. Sure.

And yet WAYMO taxis have been driving through bus stops like it’s going out of style. They aren’t necessarily better.

Then they should have to explain understand what law or suspected crime he was detained and his phone was taken as evidence. Because otherwise they can’t prove he deleted evidence of a suspected crime. So what is the suspected crime?

To create an effective burner account you need an effective burner device and a burner network to use it on. Otherwise it is trivial for companies that collect your data to figure out who that data belongs to. This is more technologically difficult than the average person is willing to deal with. It’s too high of a bar to clear when your browser is being fingerprinted, your devices are being fingerprinted, every new device you buy has some app or subscription, and algorithms collect and anonymous your data with such recklessness that it’s basically trivial to unanonymize it. Use the same network as your parents and you’ll get ads for the toothpaste they use, and maybe what they plan to buy you for Christmas. Try to remove or block trackers? That just makes it easy to single you out as a specific individual. Try to firehouse those trackers with garbage data? Same problem. If you think using a dummy Facebook account on the same device you use afor regular accounts means Facebook doesn’t track you or know who you are? That’s a pipe dream. It’s the same with other apps too. Especially Google and their app network. Understand that it’s not that I don’t think this is a good idea (to remove certain services from your electronic life, and to curtail the use of others). But I think your strategy will give people a false sense of security.