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UncleGrandPa

@UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world

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PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

UncleGrandPa ,

As the propensity of scams connected to PayPal grew over the years I stopped using them some time ago

UncleGrandPa ,

But how can you trust them not to screw you over. ( The apparent goal of every company). Now days... Even Google has turned Evil... Meaning you can literally no longer trust Any company

UncleGrandPa ,

YouTube will not stop until the site is Unusable by anyone without over paying for every second they are there. YouTube as a free site is doomed

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Sounds like any Cloudflare customer should reconsider their hosting setup . Mark Anderson has decided to strip the customers to increase the bottom line... And once the numbers are up but the customers are gone.... Will move on to the next company

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

UncleGrandPa ,

More and more it is becoming a good idea to store things on your own private equipment. If we don't demand ownership of our own possessions we will soon own nothing

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically....

UncleGrandPa ,

So now it's "The Site, formerly known as Twitter"?

UncleGrandPa ,

My mother told me of being beaten by the teacher because she was left handed. It took several years but they finally made her right handed she was born in 1931

'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al... (www.pcgamer.com)

'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers...

UncleGrandPa ,

No where in there was anything about what the consumer wants or needs. Just theirs

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