Yeah it’s arguable that Steam is a monopoly but somehow billion dollar publishers can’t create a store to sell their own products without fucking it up with annoying bullshit. Pay the 30% to protect you from yourselves.

Great response. So much of a purchase is the product aligning emotionally with my hopes and dreams of what it will provide me.

Google has been kicking the can on ending third party cookie support for years. Chrome has such a large market share that whatever they decide to do has a huge impact on the ability to monetize content with ads.

There’s no clear direct replacement for identifying users for ad targeting outside of 3pty cookies. Lots of competing ‘privacy preserving frameworks’ but they all need buy in from many players at scale to be effective.

Yeah I distinctly remember N64 games being $60 in the late 90s. We saved a lot with digital downloads vs retail over the years but it is funny that games have largely been level in price for 30 years at this point.

If you got physical before they identified as police they would subdue you and then identity. That’s why there’s 8 of them for one arrest.

I think you’d have a good chance of getting off the numerous charges against you after sitting in jail and incurring thousands in legal fees.

This tracks. Signal claims to have your phone number and logs on the last time that number accessed the service.

They could not generate new access codes via Twilio when certain patterns are detected and still be within that known data.

Well at least Nicole from Toronto in their inbox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconn_Valley_Science_and_Technology_Park

Went down the hole, part of it soon to become a Microsoft data center. Makes sense when you have access to a shit ton of fresh water.

Can I get your extra pork?

I’ve heard of a technique to track specific vehicles based on the tire pressure monitoring system in newer cars that use Bluetooth. I kinds of assume anything wireless that broadcasts a unique ID can be tracked somehow.

I would be curious to poll the Seattle WTO protesters and see how they voted in the last election.

I recently moved to the Midwest from the West Coast and understand how Globalist policy kinda sucks for a lot of people out here.

Love the rich brown color in the roux and final product. Looks excellent - cheers!

Data gathering/brokering and payment information security are not really connected. PCI compliance standards are well standardized and fairly strict.

I would trust Google to handle payment information securely over any ‘media’ company.

If personal data was regulated at even the fraction of what payment data goes through we would all be better off.

I don’t know your shop. Everywhere I’ve worked when an order is placed there is an order ID and fulfillment ID and shipping label created automatically, so the order status can be tracked both internally and externally.

At any scale without these you’ll never be able up identify errors in the process.

Okay in any fulfillment operation tracking occurs when an order is placed. You need to know when a label is printed, often when specific items are packed, and when that order leaves the building. Bigger operations will have more steps for the fulfillment chain and delivery if they do that part.

From a customer perspective, even your mom and pop shop doing UPS pickup will create a label with tracking so the customer knows when their shipment has entered the delivery chain.

Am I misunderstanding what you are talking about?

lol I can tell you’ve never worked in fulfillment. Whether an order has been shipped is something you need to track.

Chief Philanthropy Officer probably heads their fundraising team. Aka sales

Today’s Duvet, Tomorrow’s Mattress

How to Clean Everything was pretty literal for me back in the day.

This is true, but they have your encrypted vault, and all the technical data to make unlimited informed attempts at cracking it. If you used LastPass, you definitely need to be changing passwords for your critical services at a minimum.