ShadowRunner

A light breeze is enough for Google to lock accounts, and they make it nearly impossible to re-access. And they have no reliable customer service you can call or email.

But the final straw for me was when they started this bullshit of saying “tell me your phone number so we can make sure it’s you”. They never had my number in the first place, so it was clear that this was pure bullshit of them trying to associate real world identities with their accounts.

After that, I said “fuck em”, changed to other providers, and haven’t look back since.

Go ahead and delete my accounts - your service is pure garbage anyway.

Believe it or not, you’re the one being racist now - by painting all of the US and all Americans with the same brush.

You don’t hear about all the people that are perfectly fine folks and all the places that aren’t insane because that makes boring news. So the only news you hear about are the whackjobs and bottom-feeders like this.

Don’t make the same mistake of judging an entire country by a partial set of facts because that puts your feet on the first steps of the same path the people in this article walked.

This entire topic is about shortening the work week without any loss in pay.

Have you not been reading articles on this topic? Yes, we are talking about a 32 hour work week with no loss in pay.

The two authors and their editor need to go back to school and re-learn what an order of magnitude is.

JFC, the answer to your question is literally the first sentence of the article. It would have taken you less time to read it then to post your question.

The size of a person’s household or whether they live in the city are not the sole factors that go into a decision on what car to purchase.

A person can live alone but regularly car pool with coworkers, get together with multiple friends, go on day trips with family, or make extra income by driving for Uber (larger vehicles can charge more). Heck, sometimes just needing extra leg or head room rules out most regular sedans and makes an SUV more comfortable.

In addition, if a person’s activities require a lot of cargo capacity, that essentially leaves you with either an SUV or a pickup as the primary options. So whether it’s for luggage, buying stock for a family store, etc… that could be another reason for purchasing an SUV.

Sometimes, people feel that having a higher view of the road is safer because they can see more of what’s ahead of them.

So don’t fall prey to judging people as only needing an SUV if they have a large household or live in rural areas. It’s a lot more involved than that.

Not that enriched if you’re trying to insult people with “OK, Boomer”.

That’s an excellent point and very true.

Who actually gives a fuck?

A lot of people do.

What Reddit has done and is doing is very big news due to their size and the role they play on the internet. Just because you have a teenager’s snarky “who cares” attitude doesn’t mean that this isn’t important to a large portion of the online population, including many of the people who left reddit and came here.

You and everyone else in the fediverse needs to stop with this fanaticism that anything centralized is automatically a bad thing.

I gave up completely on Google accounts after they kept flagging make-believe security issues and made it near impossible to verify that it’s yours.

Even if you have a secondary email configured (and this would be what it’s for) - but oh, no, that’s still not good enough for them.

Then they pulled the utter bullshit of requiring your phone number “so they can make sure it’s you” - but since there was never a phone number associated with the account, this is clearly nothing more than a data grab so they can associate real identities with their accounts.

That was the last straw for me, and I decided that their service was utter garbage, completely unreliable, and not worth using anymore.

Sequestering is absolutely not bullshit. It’s done for very important reasons and judges are very careful about not ordering it unless it’s truly necessary.

A number of years ago, they stopped recommending and teaching tourniquets because they were concerned about people losing limbs unnecessarily if tourniquets were to be applied unnecessarily.

However, then the Boston Marathon bombing occurred and the California nightclub shooting and they realized that they had made a tragic mistake because a lot of people lost their lives when they could have been saved.

So now, tourniquets are once again recommended and taught.

Doesn’t matter. The more people who use reddit, the more additional people who will be attracted to reddit. Not only will a percentage of those people use platforms that do support ads, but both groups increase the engagement with reddit, which means more content being added, more discussions being had, more subreddits being created covering new topics.

Ultimately, it still contributes to reddit.

There is an option that reddit has zero ability to stop:

If redditors band together and commit to boycott any company who advertises through reddit until reddit reverses their changes.

Companies have been very careful about trying to not get tied into the protests. But now we make it so that reddit is poisoned fruit.

There is nothing reddit can do to stop this. No rules they can change to subvert it, because we can publicize this boycott on any and every other platform if they try to silence us.

Boycott companies that advertise through reddit, and that will throw a major wrench in their current income as well as further sour their IPO prospects.

You’re ignoring the other effects of third party apps - which is to have significantly added to the number of users they have to show ads to in the first place.

Making their API free encouraged active development which increased user engagement. So it absolutely did increase their revenue because it helped to increase the popularity of their site in the first place.

This is not reddit… Lol

You know what, reddit was filled with people who got upset when others tried to help them improve. Let’s not take that with us here.

I, for one, am grateful when others point out a mistake because it helps me to become better. That’s the mentality we should encourage here.