It’s not just a sale. Gift card money is invested and the company makes returns off of it, and all they have to do is provide you the base value of the gift card in coffee or whatever at some later date. Plus, if your purchases don’t add to a whole number, millions of gift cards with like 30 cents left over in each of them is a ton of free money for the company. Gift cards are a huge scam
If that ain’t the name of a New York police chief from the 80s with Polish heritage, I don’t know what is
Looks like they are using a Prio based protocol. If they are using Prio2+, I think this article is likely overblown. EDIT: I mixed up my sources - Mozilla tested Prio for telemetry collection. They are using a system called IPA for ads, and I don’t know whether there are formal guarantees for this system
Does Firefox explain what measures they’ve taken to protect their aggregation servers? If so, this is a perfectly fine and practical method for privacy preservation
I mean… if that happened, his followers would stage a coup under the pretense that he’ll come back to life or something. Not sure that’s better
Elon’s solution to the cyber harassment problem - let’s just make it part of product? What a moron
That boy’s mother is working 2 jobs to feed her kids and protect them from the horrors of the world. What an innocent time
I do wonder how many are bots. Most of Twitter is bots anyway
Looks kinda like the Nainithal/Bheemtal area. If so, I think there’s a Shiva temple upstream of this bridge
Edit: flags are probably Nepal though
I was always told people with a long second toe have dominant personalities