“dominance”… You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means

for when you want to rock a Jesus’ cosplay?

google (and other ad companies) keep a digital profile (or footprint) of all your clicks. so, for example, if you click on an ad for a fantasy book, they will save that you are at least interested on fantasy books, giving you more ads for that. in theory that might not sound so bad (“hey, at least the ads will be more relevant”) but in reality the amount of data that they store is incredibly invasive.

by clicking random ads, the quality of that profile would go down, as it will no longer be your true interests, thus “messing with digital footprint”

the thing is, the one and only purpose of this dialog is to increase metrics of engagement, like how many users download the app. they don’t need to convert every mobile web user to an app user immediately. as long as that dialog is driving the engagement metrics apps, it is doing its work correctly. obviously at some point there will stop increasing engagement, so the middle managers will turn and try to squeeze a bit more by removing the loopholes, but it is not an urgent problem. it even might be intentional so they can squeeze a bit more later

the one that i am surprised at how bad it is is Twitter, that is still hosted at twitter.com . even going to x.com just redirects to twitter.com . i assume that there’s some major engineering problem that is preventing them from switching, but still, it has been almost 10 months and the clown at chief really pushed for the rebranding

I like that the fireman was so polite and whisper, so to not disturb him during his relax time

at least a simple post with no political interpretation possible

Reverse of this happened for me at the end of The Big Sick. I was “wow, maybe i am racist but the actor is really similar to the guy”… it is based on the real life story of him and his wife

it is an in-universe propaganda film in a fascist regime. it is not the nazi fascism, but it is still facism