Fintechs are trying to get their grubby little claws into everyone who's desperate or stupid enough, so wouldn't surprise me at all if BNPL* companies are doing deals with takeaway places.
I genuinely pity anyone using this because they need to. 😬
*Not sure about elsewhere, but in the UK this legal predatory practice is called Buy Now Pay Later. Online loan sharking without the broken kneecaps.
I played around with this some time ago, until I thought more about it: using tools like this makes adtech money.
Adtech doesn't care if you're interested in X or Y, just that they can charge the advertiser for it. By injecting fake traffic, they're getting more data to sell.
It was started in Sweden where its operations are still based, but it's headquartered in Luxembourg and it chose to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
Luxembourg screams "tax efficiency" to me, so their list of pre-IPO investors must be quite the thing.
I feel it should be added that this is one use of anti-cheat, but it also gets used on noncompetitive single player games, too.
Usually if a game has micro-transactions, but also to "protect our IP" as has been seen with a number of older non-MTX single player games recently being retrofitted with it.
As others have said, it comes down to people not enforced on/off switches. You can't (well you can, but should you) stop people living their lives.
I was out with 3 friends tonight (all middle aged), meeting first for coffee, moving elsewhere for dinner and drinks, and ending with tabletop games (the place we eat/drink is happy with it). One of our group couldn't stop looking at his phone throughout the time we were together, and the rest of us didn't pull our phones out of our pockets once. (None of us were on call, contacted by family, or anything like that).
Just as some people have their phone ping them for every notification (often loudly, every few minutes), some feel they can't live without the dopamine hit of a meaningless social media interaction from a stranger. 🤷♂️
I encounter this mostly with manga. (I'll not rehash what others have said).
FWIW, and in that use case, I deal with it by renaming x5 to x5.0 so it will sort before x5.5. And then usually put both into an x5 directory and then zip that into a CBZ.
Hosting your own email server is a challenge, as DMARC, SPF and random hand waving by email companies (who should know better) make it needlessly problematic.
There's also the issue of whether your home ISP allows inbound email ports (25/tcp, etc). A lot don't.
It's possible(?) a hosting provider can do decent email, but I tend to think of that like 1990s-era ISPs who provided email: liable to be discontinued at any time with little/no notice and not portable.
Many email providers have an inbuilt tool that will handle all this for you.
Fastmail, for example. I switched to them 4-5 years ago, and the process of migrating over a decades worth of mail was straightforward and pretty quick.
I think it's cultural differences. In the west, we abhor pay to win and predatory aspects. But in Korea, China and other countries in that region, players demand it.
So then it comes down to which market region you're targeting. If you're not a NA/EU mobile developer, how do you choose? 🤷♂️ Can't keep everyone happy.
You're right. I'll be damned. That'll teach me to set-and-forget then not keep up with changes to Firefox and their effects on extensions. Thanks for the heads up.
EDIT: Ignore my blind confidence. CAD is (mostly) broken in recent FF versions. (See ivn's reply to this post).
Consent-o-Matic with Cookie Auto Delete and Firefox's Multi-Account Container tabs covers it all nicely for me.
Cookie banners get handled, cookies I don't explicitly want to keep automatically disappear when I leave the site/close the tab, and those I do want to keep can be given their own containers to keep them separated.
As much as I'd like it to be, it doesn't have the network effect/popularity that Reddit does. It covers maybe 70-80% of my Digg+ needs, but there are many topics/subs I want that Lemmy just doesn't have.
"Be the change you want to see" is always there: if a topic/sub doesn't exist, you can always create it yourself. But no good deed goes unpunished, so you're now the owner/moderator...
This makes me think of the Sikh community's charity/giving (can't remember the term) food giving that happens in most towns globally where there a Gurdwara.
There has to be a better way than waves hands everything, really.
I have Netdata running in a container, which has a useful all-in-one-pane view, and it does a good job of auto detecting other containers and the host OS. Its essentially zero config.
It also has alerting capability, which is not zeroconf (configuring it properly is a bit of a chore). 😅
They try to push a pro/paid version, but it's subtle and completely optional (a bit like the way Portainer does it).
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Fintechs are trying to get their grubby little claws into everyone who's desperate or stupid enough, so wouldn't surprise me at all if BNPL* companies are doing deals with takeaway places.
I genuinely pity anyone using this because they need to. 😬
*Not sure about elsewhere, but in the UK this legal predatory practice is called Buy Now Pay Later. Online loan sharking without the broken kneecaps.