This is accurate.

Every time they try this with me, I switch to a Firefox private window for Youtube. Then I switch back after a week or so and find it has stopped.

This kept happening until the current iteration which is to get a banner, but one that doesn't stop me watching a video. I can just click through it.

I don't log into Youtube or stay logged in to anything Google on a PC or laptop.

Company lifts ban on employees doing dumb things. Employees proceed to do dumb things.

You couldn't make this shit up.

I don't know what the law says there, but where I live, anything thrown out in rubbish and collected by the council belongs to them. He would be hunting for a hard drive he doesn't own.

I do. 30% is very reasonable, for what a developer gets in return. But that's not the issue here.

The issue is that a developer has no choice but to pay that 30%. If a developer want to use a competing app store to put apps on a iPhone, run a competing app store themselves, or do similar with a different pay system, then they can't. They are forced to pay that 30% or forgo the customers they might reach.

Ultimately though, the customers of the developers are themselves forced to pay that 30% (because the customer always pays in the end). They cannot choose a different app store or payment system, not even an in-app store and payment system. This is anti competitive, reducing consumer choice, increasing consumer pricing. It is a known that like for like app prices are higher on an iPhone, with less free apps available.

Apple tried to argue that this case should be heard in American courts alone. As if Australian consumers are somehow not protected by our own laws. We have rather good pro-consumer laws here in Australia, and Epic might actually have a decent chance of winning.

You Americans must be idiots if this article is anything to go by. It's called an air conditioner. It conditions the air. That is to say, it heats, cools, and removes pollen, etc, whatever. The rest of the world knows it as reverse cycle. It's pretty much a standard, and has been for 20+ years now

So lets now imagine, 330 million people, throwing away their coolers, so they can catch up to the rest of the world. Let's imagine those people trying to put a positive spin on the idea, instead of admitting to the absurd throw-away culture you have brought to the rest of the world.

Do that, and you end up with this article. Btw, I have both. The slow combustion heater shits all over the "heat pump" for heating. It leaves it for dead.

If I had mod points, I'd mod you funny. And yet you're serious. Seriously funny.

This is by ex-Googlers, yeah? So we can expect them to change on a dime once they reach critical mass. Bye bye privacy first, hello moar money?

Unless you're on mobile.

How do you have transparency of any kind in an anonymous, decentralised, so called payment system?

It's broken by design in far too many ways. Hell, it managed to turn Tesla into the dirtiest car company around with a single 'investment". Musk of course wants to have keep his cake and eat it too.

Not at all. Gold still fills the void you refer to. It's not like it suddenly went away. In fact, it got far more valuable thereafter, and will always remain in it's physical form. You just fail (willingly or unwillingly) to recognize it.

We used to call that labor. Difficulty in doing something despite working hard. The product of individual efforts.

This is funny. A pity it will go straight over so many heads.

That's what I do now. Amazon will need to make Prime the standard, at zero cost, before I'll blink again.

Search on Amazon, buy on Ebay is pretty common now. Same stuff, better price. Especially the delivery. Search on Amazon, buy on Alibaba is getting good. Same or better quality. Half the price. Delivered.

When everything is subverted by Amazon to be as cheap as possible but good for them alone, I lose nothing by buying from someone else. At least with someone else, I have a chance at a genuine product. Take my LG V30+ phone case as an example. Two PU pretend leather pieces of crap from Amazon at $20 AU a piece (plus postage). One really good genuine leather alternative from Alibaba. $11,95 AU delivered.

In short, Alibaba and Ebay are doing a better job of weeding out the crap. And more are coming. Amazon just doesn't care.

There's probably more children drawn to chess today than at any other time in human history.