Schwim Dandy

Of course they do. That was literally my point. Musk didn’t bother to hide it so we don’t need new studies to show that’s how they operate.

Absolutely nobody needed a new study to show the risks. We all saw what could happen as Musk altered Grok to behave in manners that he approved of.

II absolutely love that multilingual in the language of rant. You deserve more ups than I can give.

Wow, I’m really sorry you went through that but it makes me want to suggest using something like privacy.com for future subscriptions and purchases. You can create virtual cards that you can make merchant locked(so if a scammer got the number, they couldn’t run it), one-time use, and with a total or monthly limit. In this case, you could have simply paused or canceled the card you used for of as you were being told you needed to write a letter. I’ve used it for years in this manner and I’ve never paid a dime for the service, their free tier provides everything I need.

I think they take a ton of heat on it and most employees just don’t even try when you come in to cancel. Two out of three PF accounts in our house were canceled at different times and both times, the person behind the counter didn’t ask a single question, just wiped the account and told us to have a great day.

I’ve been pegged as one who serially modals online.

They have been surveiling us for years. They just to maximize what they can collect.

As an American, I say let’s fucking go!

Went from one billionaire’s pet project to another’s and am shocked… SHOCKED, I say! That it’s the same drivel and slop.

…Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.

We have no protections and no privacy, laws or no.

The ONLY reason the industry cares is because of the fake streamers part of this. They not only welcome ai music, platforms like Spotify are creating ai music of their own so they can cut out the pittance they pay the artists.

This is not a goodguys-win story.

If anyone missed them removing the “we will never sell your data” from their promise to their users, this is clearly their next step in monetizing their users.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-personal-data-asks-users-not-to-panic/

It strikes me as a joke/sarcastic jab at the industry.

Tired of putting “Portions of this software…” in your documentation? Those maintainers worked for free—why should they get credit?

…and suddenly your entire proprietary codebase must be open sourced. The horror!

Through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn’t recognize software copyright

I’m surprised anyone could take the site seriously.

Ford already knows you want expensive but cool.

I’ve never used the site but I can respect the letter of notice.

Who’s dumb enough to believe it was ever for child safety?

Another court case with no ramifications. That’ll teach him.

This is such a Captain Obvious take. Musk publicly and not at all sneakily modified Grok to do things like give him accolades, be more anti-woke and sycophantic towards Trump and cronies. Of course he’s manipulating the platform to fall in line with his personal views.

So technological.

I’ll be sad when I can no longer watch my subs but as they say, live by the corporate whim, die by the corporate whim.