Womble @ Womble @lemmy.world

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Gosh you've certainly got them there, no way they could spot that and its bound to ruin their whole model with that 0.00001% of input it represents.

Thats true in a surface level way. Buts its equally true about cigarettes, heroin any other adictive substance you can think of.

I know malls track peoples movements throught them and thats creepy as fuck too, though I dont think they tie IDs to individuals, just monitors where people move throughout them.

The rest of your post makes no sense, yes obviously peole can tell the diference between commuters wanting coffee and people on a night out getting drunk. But that is very different to having a label on everyone saying "came from my mistresses house" or "came from my weed dealer" on each person, which is more akin to the level of detail given by referal links.

FWIW doctor comes from the latin for "I teach" and has been used by acedemics since the 12th centrury. Its usage meaning physician is a lot more recent.

There’s legitimate interest in knowing where people come from, though, and asking on your own page “how did you get here?” is hardly going to work

I fundamentally disagree, if shops started scanning people's phones as they walked in to find where they had been last before they entered their shop people would be outraged, but somehow this has become accepted practice on the web.

Sure thats correct, but I'm a little uneasy with the idea of "burn down a useful resource for people becuase fewer people helped people results in slower increases of data to Reddit"

Reddit lost nothing when you deleted your comments, they still exist on their servers and are likely being used to train LLMs now. All that was lost was other peoples ability to readt them

Lovely debating strategy, name drop a philospoher, pretend thats an argument and then instead of saying how said philosopher actually supports what you are saying accuse others of ignorance.

A well earned block for you :)

You're the one name dropping a philosopher saying that his work proves that growth of lemmy will result in its inevitable enshittification, give your reasoning connecting the two ideas.

Feel free to enlighten me how a 19th century philosopher who likely hadnt used a telephone dictates how a federated social network is vulnerable to capture by capital and squeezing first a captive userbase for the benifit of advertisers, then captive advertisers for platform profit.

Take your time.

"A philosopher said it" is not an argument for something being guarunteed to happen, especially when said philosopher said it 120 years ago and we are talking about the evolution of the internet and doublly especially as I have already given you a counterexample.

I agree on the UI front, making things more like reddits awful new ui is just a bad idea. Just that your premise for justifying that is wrong.

Ironincally using older AI instead of current.

Yeah, its sad that wikipedia becoming one of the biggest sites in the world turned it into a over monetised hellscape, but that's just what happens inevitably when you grow big, the capitalists get you.

Looks like they're getting a bit nervy that this forced obsolescence might actually push some people away from windows

That's a reasonable stance to take when said company is just one competing in a marketplace. But when they are a monopoly operating a quasi-utility that should be public its not good enough.

If Germany wasnt a country that bent over backwards to please Israel and shelter it from critisism, maybe that could be the case. But instead it is the country that barred the rector of Glasgow university from entering Shengen as he (A British-Palestinian surgeon) was going to give a talk on the conditions he had witnessed in gaza and has repeatedly banned pro Palestein demonstrations and symbols.

I see no reason to assume its refusal to state that it would uphold an ICC warrant against Netanyahu (as more vocally pro Palestein countries such as Spain and Ireland have done) is anything other than not being willing to uphold it.

Right, I'm not trying to portray the UK as a beacon of goodness, but Germany has gone far beyond in suppressing any dissent towards Israel and noticeably has not said that they would respect an ICC warrant, just that they would "examine" it.

Huh? You think that the UK, which has affirmed that it will honour ICC warrants (i.e. arrest Netanyahu if he came to the UK), is somehow more pro-Israel than Germany?