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I think that's an education problem more than a review problem.

To the average user, those are unknown apps. I'd be upset to if my phone was auto downloading crap, especially the ones like AR that sound extra useless.

Having play store deliver updates is a great idea. Lumping them together with everything else is apparently not. There could be a separate "system updates" section to separate them.

I think it'll be okay, Honey was actually making money from the manipulation without user knowlage.

Adblocks don't make money and users are (should be) aware that tracking links and stuff gets removed.

That's unfortunate.

Another thing you can do is to keep available funds on whatever card you use online low. If there's only 1 to 2k on the card, yes it'll suck, but it won't be as impactfull as your life savings.

You a might also consider credit card with a small limit (1k or less) and set auto pay to "pay full balance" every month. Avoid interest like the plague, (those cards have insane interest rates over 20%), but if you're always paying it off in full, there's no interest to pay. If I can't pay the credit card off in full (and I mean the full limit) when I "swipe" it, I pretend it does not exist. None of the "I get played next week, so I can pay it off then" - nope, don't go there.

Supposedly credit cards have better fraud protection than a debit, but maybe that's just another one of our many "Freedom" problems.

The main thing is you're separating the random websites from the majority of your funds to limit how much can be taken. If there's a problem, I'm dealing with Privacy.com and a couple hundred bucks and can still pay the bills. I'm not trying to convince ebayclone#71 and my bank I didn't place an order for 10000 waffle makers before the lights shut off.

And of course, I'm just some rando on the internet, not an actual expert. Not even in same country as you, so take that for what it is.

Good to know.

Password manager, and use different randomly generated passwords.

The real danger is having the same password everywhere.

Also pay attention to where you save your payment info.

Everything I do online is through Privacy.com, with limits for each vendor. My amazon gets hacked? Most I'm out is $100, steam gets hacked, there goes $60. A subscription tries to double charge, lol no. Free trial wants to auto-bill me after 7 days, its not happening. Funneling everything through them isn't 100%, but at least they're not paypal, I get notified when ever even a 1 cent charge happens and I'm not leaving my bank card on a dozen random sites I'll eventually loose track of.

I suppose. I was thinking more of 1 Chinese company just spinning up a hundred copy/paste apps.

I'm assuming they both work at same "evil" company.

The guilt would depend on the crime.

Did the roof collapse despite numerous warnings from the maintenance staff about structural issues? If the worker failed to report outside the company, yes there is some fault on them for inaction.

If the company ordered some cyrpto mining baked into their software, then the developer who accepted the task and implemented it would share guilt.

Sounds about right, From my understanding, they singled out TikTok instead of addressing the actual problem they claim to care about.

[Edit, another comment says its any app with 1million users. So now there's just going to be a hundred TikTok clones all under the same umbrella just different names.]

I wouldn't read too much into it, the chosen events just both had fire.

Oh boy, I can't wait for a completely boring corporate introduction devoid of any creativity due to the last ipad's controversy!

Gee thanks for linking the comic where I stole the joke from :p

"We'll take your women to bare our children"

"The volunteers are lining up already"

Its a comfort thing. Same reason a child might want a night light.

True darkness, or "pitch black" can be uncanny if your not used to it. Even just letting some 'natural' outside light can make a difference.

Good luck with that one, don't forget to set an alarm.

I was curious too.

After listening to a bit of the first and then randomly a few seconds of a few more songs, I agree. I don't like my night time music to build up or go from calm to a sudden full orchestra.

That being said, I did find one I liked, called Ricter:Aria (pt1).

https://youtu.be/0_6jmOmDUes

Personally I have a playlists of music that works for me. Some nights it helps, others I end up shutting it off. Everyone's different.

Beside music, there's a lot of other external factors that could be affecting your sleep (ignoring internal factors, see a therapists or something for those).

• Your pillow. is it flat and time to replace or too new and puffy). You might be able to toss it in the dryer on low for 10 mins to get some oomf back, that or it will explode.
• bed. too firm, too soft, too old, sometimes flipping the mattress 180 so head side is now the foot side helps.
• blanket. are you too cold without, too hot with?
• PJs, are they too heavy, scratchy material?
• room temp/humidity. Is the room comfortable, is there good air flow?
• light, is it too dark, too bright?
• does that goofy branch outside the window look a person?

The other lawyer in the case, Attorney Tom made a video going over what they are sueing for and some of the misconceptions.

https://youtu.be/ItiXffyTgQg

People have a claim due to lost profits and potentially missed business opportunities.

Let's Youtuber A had a sponsor affiliate and a spoken ad spot. Creator makes 2k for the sponsor read and 2% every time someone buys something via link. Honey swoops in and steals the affiliate link (regardless if the user got a coupon or not). The creator no longer getting the 2% and skews the success of the ad.

The creator's ad performance (ad to finished transaction) is down, so sponsor lowers the commission to 1% and 1.5k for the next video. Enough people use honey and the metrics are bad enough the sponsor doesn't renew contract with the creator.

On the consumer end, which due to arbitration clauses the lawyers aren't actively pursuing (at this time) (see linked video).

Oof, you gotta find that FBI post (might have a different 3 letter agency) said that adbock is required for safe browsing. Tell them users can't click on malware ads if there's no malware ads to click.

God wanted you to steal that sharpener. Such an unholy object does not belong in Sunday School.

I downloaded more ram, does that count????

Yet its still a surprise to many. But I suppose that's a knowledge gap not a skill issue. Now getting younger folks these day to follow a file directory, that's a true challenge.