COX: Drug traffickers love gizmos. They love gadgets. And if they have something like, ooh, the app is hidden behind a calculator, they think that’s amazing, and they want to buy it.

TIL drug traffickers have the mindset of a teenage boy looking for ways to hide porn.

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PSA. Send stuff to your local post office and then go pick it up.

At least they have precident now.

You know, from a business standpoint, it makes financial sense NOT to log user traffic.

Reason one: plausible deniability. You can’t give what you don’t have.

Reason two: storage. Why the fuck would you keep logs, when it costs money to?

Reason three: these boots taste fantastic! (People generally don’t enjoy licking boots).

I’m more worried about Google’s income. How can they afford to spy on me if they aren’t being paid far out the ass to host what will soon be security theatre.

Put me in the screenshot

Oh man, wait till they hear about how I riced both my master and slave servers. I threw so many RGB LEDs on them, they look like recipients of a Fukoshima clown bukkake.

Go a step further,

Make it mandatory to comment if you vote.

!I don’t really mean this, but could you imagine?!<

Microsoft can suck my FAT32mm Micropenis

How old?

I didn’t mean OP was a single-parent. I meant I haven’t met any parents.

In any case, are you telling me you haven’t ever let your kid watch TV because you were too busy?

I’m going to assume you don’t have kids.

Unless you’ve had kids you don’t understand that it is practically impossible to complete even the most basic tasks unless your child is distracted.

Staying on top of household duties while managing a child is challenging enough, but then add on work, study, and every other responsibility.

I’ve never met a single parent who shares your opinion.

I figured that. If I was to guess, I would say ~90% use the native app on their phones or TV to watch YouTube.

In total, I have to assume ad blocking viewers make up a single percent or less.

I don’t see how this could make financial sense.

Honestly… How much has Google spent trying to counter people skipping ads?

Is it less than the amount of potential profit if everyone was forced to watch ads?

This seems like that situation recently where NYC paid a million dollars to enforce people to pay for train tickets, which was less than twenty thousand a year in lost revenue.

I’ve unironically had this happen to me, same friend, twice.

They had the audacity to blame me, despite being generous enough to perform some basic maintenance and performance enhancements.

Then when they got home, forgot to plug it back in.

One of the problems Epic has is that it is only a store front. Steam is a fully featured platform.

Epic, in their lawsuit, wants to break Steam’s store and platform into separate applications, so they can compete.

Sort of like how people want to have different app stores on their iphones.

Difference is: Steam has no restrictions in the first place. You can add non-Steam games to the client if you want. You can use Proton if you want.

Steam offers all of these features for free. What is the point in breaking them apart.

It’s hilarious to me that Epic will never introduce features like this, and also complain Steam has a monopoly, as if they’re at all comparable

Same energy as Joan Cornella’s comics