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zavi··on Why I’m done with Chrome
Do they really use email content for ad targeting or are you spreading misinformation?
zavi··on Why I’m done with Chrome
You should appeal if what you're saying is indeed true. You're supposed to use advertising ID for any ad-related tracking - if you use something more sensitive instead (like IMEI) then you'll get taken down.
zavi··on Twitch is reportedly blocked in China
Chinese treatment of US tech companies (forced technology transfer, IP theft, censorship) is the primary reason why US is imposing tariffs on China. One can see that from reading the primary sources (i.e. press releases on wh.gov).
zavi··on US imposes new tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods
Why would you not pay an extra 25% when buying from AliExpress?
zavi··on Amazon Investigates Employees Leaking Data for Bribes
Doing whatever it takes to get personal benefit even though it screws over others is the opposite of collectivism. As somedy who lived in China, Europe, and the US the notion of people in China being less selfish and less likely to cheat the system is just absurd.
zavi··on In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users
This is overblown, people's livelihoods don't rely on Inbox. Most features are in Gmail now anyways.

And no whataboutism please, this deprecarion event is about Inbox, not some other product.

zavi··on In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at its most passionate users
Gmail, Chrome, Play, Maps seem pretty successful to me.
zavi··on EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
This is fantastic for Google in Europe - they aren't making money from hobbyist publishing remixes and can easily filter it out with the infrastructure and training data they already have. They make money off Despacito and the likes with whom they already have a revshare in place.
zavi··on EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
Both GDPR and this were intended to hurt American tech giants. However the people pushing this have very little understanding of how internet works so it would certainly have the opposite effect. The grim reality is that deregulation is the only sure way to help homegrown startups compete against the incumbents but you cannot push for deregulation without losing your entire political base in Europe.
zavi··on EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
News are mostly clickbait cancer anyways, if this is the final nail in their coffin (if Google/Reddit/Facebook stops serving news) so be it. Tech Giants will do just fine under this, just how Chinese tech giants are able to do their own censorship.
zavi··on Switzerland: Welcome to the Drone Valley
A quick look at the market share numbers instantly renders this article false.
zavi··on California governor signs overhaul of bail system
That's right, the typical HN users are some of the finest intellectuals who would never act criminally due to their superior intellect and morals. Most of us are from Norway actually.
zavi··on Man sues over Google’s “Location History” fiasco, case could affect millions
Nothing, OP is ignorant. Google does AMP to make webpages faster cause they make money from people clicking on links.
zavi··on YC China and Qi Lu
Nominal GDP is used to measure country market sizes, sorry.
zavi··on YC China and Qi Lu
By monetary measure.
zavi··on YC China and Qi Lu
Ah yes, the superior thinking of top minds that frequent news.ycombinator.com
zavi··on Duke Team Finds Missing Immune Cells That Could Fight Lethal Brain Tumors
Abundance of cells. This is a properly formed English sentence.
zavi··on Twitter Suspends Alex Jones for Seven Days Over Tweet
Most users are outside of the US for these companies.
zavi··on Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?
Such as?
zavi··on Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?
GDPR doesn't force Google to censor search results.

Right to Be Forgotten does though. Just replace one with another and your argument becomes valid.

zavi··on Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?
> Its pretty clear they have no moral issue with censoring for profit.

This has been evidently true since they didn't leave Europe after Right to Be Forgotten. They make good revenue in Europe which justifies having to censor results.

zavi··on Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?
Just go incognito
zavi··on Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?
> Google knows where you live, where you work, where you bank, who you're dating

How do they know who I'm dating?

zavi··on Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics
How did they justify it in Sweden then?
zavi··on Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
If you have good reasons not to believe then you can sue Google and make $$$. Otherwise you're just hurting yourself.
zavi··on Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
Asserted without evidence, dismissed without evidence.
zavi··on Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics
We should at least try this while the fires are going even though it's expensive. There's no wildlife in the middle of a fire other than rodents under ground. Just bomb the area that's burning wider than the blast radius.
zavi··on Smoking around the world
A better analogy would be a potential campaign to reduce obesity. If US could pull off a public fat shaming campaign as successful and the one around tobacco it would be a huge benefit to individual people's quality of life as well as economy as a whole.
zavi··on Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers
It'd suggest reading the article before spreading harmful misinformation.
zavi··on Scorching Summer in Europe Signals Long-Term Climate Changes
But I like lettuce.
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