Ask it to search or list all of Bach’s children and you can see the wheels completely fall off. It was inventing people with actual fake birth and death dates and also gave me some of Handel’s children!

The didn’t make 420m in profit, they lost 124m.

This has a lot more info: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and

Personal data isn’t only used for ads. In this case a users watching history can be sold especially if it’s connected in some way to a demographic profile. There could be many more ways to monetize many other things the user does.

Thank you very much for explaining that. This has really been pretty far over my head but it’s so exciting.

Uhhhh isn’t this pretty massive news? Or am I missing something?

Paypal’s board brought Thiel in and ousted Musk. Thiel didn’t do that on his own, he was begged to come back.

The brutal honesty is what makes this sing

Thank you so much! I’m going to try those first two today. Appreciate it!

The analogies in this were really good and honestly really accurately describe threads enough for me. What a strange place that is, the captions on the screenshots killed me.

They do not

This is not the case at all and the parent comment was not clear

I think you need to clarify how they can see the password. It’s not stored in plaintext, but when the user logs in, the server administrator can see the password in the HTTP post data if they log it in the lemmy sourcecode. All apps are subject to this and it’s why to have to trust the instance owner.

I completely agree with you, I lost my original yahoo account right around that time and i think about it pretty regularly, i just want to see what was in there one more time.