An important thing to note is all of the methods tie you to a real identity. Even account age given over the requisite period, it would be enough time for Apple to do data collection for most people (which may be why some old accounts are not considered eligible) This is a hill I will die on - I will not give the OS my identity. I will sooner stop using cell phones entirely, or switch to a pager+Linux laptop. Not even my carrier has it anymore. After I caught T-Mobile selling my PII again after I opted out, I switched to an MVNO with a pseudonym. Can't trust any of these corpos with your PII.

The best use case for it, too. US government restoring freedom to states who took it away.

Mumble does now support individual volume adjustment... a feature that a few other conference calling programs still don't, somehow.

Yep, too many developers are just unwilling to do code signing, whether due to cost, privacy, or censorship concerns.

Dangerous enough to fine someone millions, but not enough to fix, I guess.

Poor security does lead to increased car theft, as we saw with the surge in Kia models being stolen.

This. The tax is anticompetitive, UK should have put an end to it. It doesn't cost anywhere near 30% to host an apk and run it through automated filters. App stores should not run on a percentage model but a flat usage model (ex: pay for apk bandwidth like on AWS). Customers are stuck paying the bloated hidden tax.

Not giving them my id or face. Too many perfectly fine alternatives. Self-hosted Matrix is basically the same thing but free.

The most telling thing about this is it means Amazon is giving up on the just walk out AI. They had always presented it as a matter of collecting enough data and they'd eventually be able to automate the order tracking instead of humans reviewing the store footage. This implies they were never able to solve that.

Many of these accounts are likely adults who refuse to upload an ID.

Call your legislators and state your opinions. I know that sounds like hollow nonsense, but I've actually gotten to speak to multiple of them. Especially at the state level, you might be surprised at what you can do since most people don't bother. Meanwhile the data broker industry IS lobbying for these laws and they're talking to them (and sometimes paying them). So make your voice heard, both at state and federal level.

Once craigslist started to charge for posts, it became pretty much useless. I was trying to find someone for a cheap lawn mow and they wanted $50 just to post the ad. Which also cut down the service providers posting there dramatically, and the ones there are only the most expensive. Never went back since.

I like this approach. When I was growing up they'd assign six books a year, every year. Invariably, they'd be the most boring, dry reads to me. Once I discovered SparkNotes / cliffnotes, I would read the first chapter or two to see if it was another boring book, decide it was, and then just rely on the summaries. I'm very fortunate to have read other books so I still developed an enjoyment of reading. But I've never thought I cheated myself by not reading all of Moby Dick or Pride and Prejudice. There has been not one time in my career when I needed the skill to read hundred year old novels with no practical application.

I'm already hearing multiple stories of LinkedIn randomly demanding id scans and people switching to Indeed instead - and actually finding jobs that way. I think LinkedIn has already begun its descent.

Data sharing with the federal government. That's always why they were pushing it.