Do you want to start comparing the number of times an incident like this happened, verses the number of times an on-site system was borked?

According to google the CEO only made about $400k last year, 2022 was 32m, 2021 was 12m (most of that was stocks/options). But let's say 20m a year.

So 400 employees * $100,000k a year (remember employees cost much more than their pay) = $40 million a year.

Yeah, they probably over-hired, it sucks for the workers. But "omg the ceo makes soo much" is rarely the solution.

https://www1.salary.com/Todd-M...

The silliness of this makes me think there was something more significant / interesting in the background, like someone was caught reselling / sharing the GP account.

I could see Susan the secretary shared her MS account credentials with her nephew or something to give him Gamepass, but then now he can access the company slack (err teams?) or confidential things.

The cost isn't zero, this perk does cost them money. The venn diagram of "people who work at Microsoft" and "people who would pay for the best game service" aren't two circles, there is going to be significant overlap.

I agree that this isn't a good idea. If only for the bad press.

I didn't know that was a thing. I've always used quotes for required. foo "bar" will only return results that contain "bar" somewhere.

I mean it is with your permission; you are visiting Facebook.com. You are saying "Please use my bytes and show me things." by visiting the site.

Yeah perhaps, but it seems like that is difficult to do. Office/Word has had a spell check for decades and it is still trash, I mangle words bad enough even after multiple revisions Word will still not know the (relatively common word) I was aiming for.

The Chrome offline version seems about equal to Word.

Yeah, and?

I thought about adding a blurb about that, but it's like already on the tin. There are tons of stuff in Chrome that sends stuff to Google. If that is a concern for you, don't use Chrome/Google.

Frankly I would trust Google over some random 3rd party plugin.

In Chrome there is an option for "Enhanced spell check", basically it does a good search for them when you right click on it, both of these presented the correct spelling with it.

Did you see the most recent article from the 7th? He pretty much slams LK99, "no evidence of superconductivity" over and over.

1. Google never had a contract with Genius
2. Google didn't even steal the lyrics, it was done by a third party who Google contracted that to (why didn't Genius sue them?)
3. Genius/Google/3rd Company doesn't even own the text.

In theory the API agreement could specify that APIed ads must be displayed (or your API key is revoked), and then with that assurance sell the APIed ads and impressions for the ad-buyers.

The 3rd party app makers could maybe even get a cut of click-throughs, as an encouragement to make the ads stand out.

Your point about (b) doesn't make sense. By your logic Google knows the ad was skipped/black/whatever, then why they serve the video?

There are 2 options:
1) Google knows the ad was avoided.
2) Google doesn't know the ad was avoided.

If it is 1, they won't serve the video, if it is 2 they will get paid on it. No lying involved.

Yeah some some company might sue Google in 5 years for missing some random bleeding edge ad-blocker and serving ads, but I'm sure the advertising contact will be updated to account for that.

That is a fair point, I suppose regardless of the validity of your theories, I proved the point you were actually trying to make. My bad.

I haven't messed around with it too much. Does it actually give you sources? Like links to articles or something you could read more?

So the bot "understood" your theories on "quantum physics", without biases or criticism... And you would pay for a version without political influences...

I'm getting a big flat-earth / reddit.com/r/iamverysmart type of vibe.

I'm assuming your theories weren't backed with research or math or anything, just "what if time was a donut" type of stuff?