It's sad but not unsurprising to see HN nitpicking this page. Normal website tracking and what companies like facebook, google, or amazon can do aren't comparable. The three partner organizations listed are extremely trustworthy and I know the Markup in particular has done very similar studies in the past, been excellent about informed consent and user data, and uncovered unique data on how social networks display content by doing so.
I do not, and have never owned, an iPhone. I only have an iPad and a work mac and without trying it managed to make me lose a text. I managed to disable it and deregister my number but the deregistration process was extremely buggy and a pain to begin with.
Apple has absolutely hijacked SMS. I missed a text from a family member for months becuase Apple decided it should go to my iPad that I never knowingly activated iMessage on.
Yes, it was incredibly clear what Moxie meant with that line (and it's been proven over and over) but some of the rounding error of people who like running their own stuff (I'm one of them) take this as a personal attack for some reason.
> I then fully expect that person to counter, because I feel that it's on them to do the market research to determine how much they're worth. That's what I've done through my career and I've been happy with the result.
Can you imagine why many others cannot or do not want to negotiate like this?
Yes, it's incredibly annoying how little attention it seems to get from google. Bugs sit in the bug tracker for years and while I like the redesign it broke a function I used (to get the current URL so create multi-page apps). Apps Script just got a new UX update not long ago which I took as a good sign but App Maker had a roadmap going out a year when it got killed, so.
"Nobody is entitled to get a company’s services for free just because you think their price is too high or their front ends aren’t built to your liking." Tell this to Google!
Conversations are not legal contracts; if you knowingly and selectively choose your words to give the wrong impression (and abusers are skilled at doing) you are lying.
Meeting a desire is not a bullshit job, depending on the desire. One example in the book is a receptionist. Some places need receptionists to answer phones or receive packages, but one receptionist was hired at a firm that didn't need her to do any work - but a competing firm in the same building had one, so they wanted one too. Meeting your desire for nice hair, even a desire for a butler to pick up your laundry or whatever, is still meeting a need, but it's less superfluous than "I need you to sit there because someone else has someone who does something similar)
It's not too bad to deploy, I have an install up and wrote a guide here: https://socialism.tools/zero-to-zulip/ compared to alternatives like Mattermost or Rocket Chat it's quite easy.
Any software like this will, without fail, be used by abusers to do things other than blocking pornography. If it only did that one thing this wouldn't be a problem.
sure, but on one hand, you have being mildly inconvenienced by a shot, and on the other hand, you have conspiracy theories that can get loads of people filled. People are crazy, we should embrace that, but that doesn't mean you let everyone drive drunk.
transactions are very much not free when paying with bitcoin, and this has been tried in a few forms already but none have been successful. how can they spend what you give them? are you going to sit there and explain bitcoin to the waiter?