TD Bank (the 10th largest bank in the US) was fined 3BN USD for their role in an international money laundering scheme in Oct of this year.
They gotta make that money back somehow.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/td-bank-penalties-1.7348819
Dark patterns will eventually force advertisements into anything that reliably catches your attention.
I stopped paying attention to notification icons ages ago, and I haven’t missed any important notifications.
You own what is on your machine, that you save locally.
Some companies believe they control the internet, but they do not. They control what is on the computers they own, that they save locally. Sometimes that is information that users have shared. That is their choice.
Classic actions of a horrible company doing horrible things.
“It’s for the safety of the children”
Steam, Spotify, Discord. Whoops, all Chromium.
Selective quoting is basically lying.
The first, dubbed IS-29e, failed due to a propulsion system fuel leak. Intelsat declared the satellite a total loss in April 2019, later attributing it to either a micrometeoroid strike or solar weather activity.
With the context of the quote, I"m curious what the pattern you’ve identified is.
You just won the thread.
I’m sad they’re not videos, but what a treasure trove.
As a habitual lurker, this is amazing. I can keep abreast if my local town subreddit without loading their horrendous mobile site. Bravo.
This article was clearly written by an AI that had no idea what it was talking about.
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Television shows are 22-24 minutes, because cable TV should show 6-8 minutes of ads every half hour. 30 second ads in blocks of 3 or 4, multiple times per show.
15 seonds ads are almost too short for a trip to the kitchen. I’m not saying they’re good, but if you want to compare to cable TV, you need to remember the dark times.
Do not look away from screen while ad is playing, or playback will be paused for 5 minutes for first offense.
I signed up for the first one I saw, and subscribed across instances without ever considering that people might care where you came from.
People are going to judge. I try to not to be like people.
Grilled cheese sandwich. It’s as lazy or as fancy as you’re feeling.
Super lazy? Grease bread with cheese slice. Fry flip eat.
Feeling less lazy as you start? Cut a hole in one of the pieces of bread and fry an egg in it while you toast the other side, and upgrade the cheese. Just be careful. When you start eyeing meats and mustards to pair, you’re in danger of making yourself a pretty epic sandwich.
A 200+ year old document which was designed and written deliberately to ensure that no one amassed too much power, and is now complicating individuals amassing too much power.
A Starship Troopers game from 1990s Blizzard Entertainment.
A red dead redemption game from From Software
Another Moe checking in!
“Foreign contaminant!”
At this point I’d go full Karen asking to speak to the supervisor, then taking my business elsewhere.
Vote with your wallet.