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Also see: the first time this article was submitted with a slight title correction to avoid the disgusting euphemism for slavery used by the original site[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782727

> A 'slave' implies people that were enslaved with no justification

it absolutely does not, and to suggest so is absurd. In America, black people have been enslaved with all sorts of justifications about how they were of an "inferior race", how they were "naturally" more violent and "animalistic", etc and how their enslavement was actually good for them.

yep. Those darn liberals calling "voluntary" labor slavery.

This one disappeared from the front page real quick

Which is why correcting that harmful, false narrative is critical

What part of the title is misleading? the HN title fixes simply removes some inaccurate language from the original article.

You're right, I should be thankful for free spyware. my bad

Wow, sneaking Google Analytics into an extension like this? Some people really have no morals

and in the case of the insignificant minority, the second one sets up a competing shop directly across the street with artificially low prices and waits for the first one to go out of business.

I'm sure that'll be a huge relief to all the people who no longer afford healthcare for their pets. Maybe they simply should have not been poor!

parents tried to go in UNARMED and the cops arrested them. Bringing a gun wouldn't have helped them, unless they had mowed down every cop first. Do you think they should have done that?

> It is a sad and exploitative industry.

just wait till you see what they do with human healthcare in this country

no matter the cost to the rest of society. obviously they're trying to reduce costs for their investors

if only there was some kind of other option used by all developed countries except the US... too bad there isn't, i guess i'll just die when i cant afford healthcare

> One wonders what the Private Equity firm's intention was here.

no, i don't think anyone's wondering that. private equity firms have one purpose and one purpose only.

ah yes, a more profit driven healthcare sector, exactly what this country needs

Yeah, I'm getting this too. TechCrunch somehow managed to get even worse.

edit: https://spectrum.ieee.org/pacman-hack-can-break-apple-m1s-la... seems to cover the same thing with less spyware

> It’s saddening that we as Americans tolerate this kind of abuse from the department of “justice”, FBI, and NSA.

what do you suggest we do about it? We have no meaningful recourse against the myriad of government abuses.

One can't really, which is why these absurd claims of "we wont monitor your traffic" should be assumed to be blatant falsehoods.

I don't think that's physically possible on HN

Is there something wrong with just buying a normal TV and not giving it your wifi password?

Yep, you've correctly identified the problem!

Other sites like ddosecrets.com and itsgoingdown.org are also affected. Neither have the string "free" in them

and then remember that's the one you're paying and consider why you do the paying part in the first place

what gives you the impression that the author of this software isn't employed?

Something like this? https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/travel-opt...

>The power differential and historic missteps of governments makes this ludicrous to think of as "OK" in comparison.

wasn't that kind of the point?

site does not load with javascript disabled. But does show me a <title> tag that implies it's a Facebook product, so I'm definitely not going to enable javascript.

good thing there's absolutely no reason to store any data about users of an offline desktop app!

>and if the community responds with a SOPA-like "no access using Chrome for the next 48 hours then, here are some other fine browsers you can use instead that don't invade your privacy in this way"

that seems unlikely.