I agree: I deserve to get the lowest prices on the same Chinese shit for sale everywhere. I deserve to have low-effort returns even of the cheapest merchandise, where they generally tell me I can keep both pieces instead of sending them back. I deserve to be able to purchase items nobody is bothering to list on other sites because they aren't popular.

Tons of the shit I can see from where I'm sitting came from AliExpress. I could have bought it somewhere else for more, but that would be really fucking stupid.

Yeah! You should shop with Amazon or eBay instead and then you can buy... *checks notes* exactly the same thing, sourced from the same place, only more expensive because someone else made a profit clicking buttons to drop ship it to you.

There are no $0.33 FPV drones. That's probably a controller wrist strap. Silicone squeezers are for people who want to increase grip strength, whether they're climbers or just people with an incapacity, getting those for a dollar would be great. The stupid product names are necessary because AliExpress' search is hot garbage. And this is after they've improved it considerably! Unfortunately they haven't realized that people need to be able to search for things like fractions.

Apple is integrating AIshit into all their products like everyone else, so yes they are formally and willfully contributing to the AIpocalypse. They are prioritizing on-device models more than most others, but a) this will eventually be a losing proposition for them because it's limiting so they will switch to using more cloud models and b) all AI product advertising increases demand for all AI products because while there is some market differentiation between AI products, the average person has no clue about that whatsoever.

Can an internet-connected car look shit up?

The problematic thing about that analogy is that a lot of the aqueducts are still standing, and some are even still in use, but the things being made by big tech today won't still be standing in a couple of decades — let alone a handful of centuries. Even if you lop off a couple of orders of magnitude to account for the rate at which technology accelerates it's still looking bad by comparison. What the tech industry is doing right now is more closely akin to tearing down the aqueducts than to building any.

Literally none of that will even make a dent unless everyone does it. The right way to do it is therefore with regulation, not with thoughts and prayers and inconveniencing yourself because none of the systems which should be in place to mitigate your difficulties are being built if it's just you.

I will spend literally all my karma on this, you fucking child rape promoting maggot fucks.

It's easy for those of us who built a new PC right before things went nuts. I only wish I'd built a newer one instead of carrying on my tradition of building a last generation machine when the new generation machines show up to drive down the price, then it would be more future proof. Who knows how long this will persist...

He never brings up all those times he fucked kids, not even to claim he didn't do it, or to sue any of the many people who have said he did it like he does anytime anyone says anything else negative about him.

Why is it even possible for a web site to detect when the window has lost focus? They only do abusive things with that information, I should be able to turn that off.

What a facile little turd you shit out there.

That's not a free market, not that I'm complaining about that idea, only about the characterization.

The minimum fee has to be set high enough to discourage the practice when not actually necessary. You can't let the market set it, that's what it's doing now.

It doesn't NEED to know any of these things. My browser knows the window (not screen) size and if your CSS is well-formed, it'll manage or maybe your page looks shit if you build it shit. It needs to know my OS only if I want a download link, not on every page I ever visit. It doesn't need graphics capabilities unless it wants to bypass the browser rendering engine, in which case it should ask for permission or fuck off.

The thing is that we give up too easily and the major browser manufacturers (one of which is an ad company themselves) are complicit.

I want "fuck the ad industry" mode, where the browser generates random but plausible values for every non-essential information a website requests. Different ones every 5 minutes.

It's not reasonable to blame anyone before we knew about the greenhouse effect in the late 1800s. It's perfectly reasonable to blame people after that who voted for this.