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Thanks for that textbook example of the exception proving the rule: a QA tester is as far from "internet rando" as you can get; the fact that you had to cite someone whose actual job is to make sure accessibility law is followed, proves how few actually good examples there are.

I'm not unsympathetic to accessibility issues, but at the same time it's REALLY suspicious how much internet randos (especially on Bluesky) suddenly started being really militant about alt-tagging at EXACTLY the same time as the tech billionaires started needing tagged images to train their clankers.

see now you're just being argumentative and indulging in petty pedantic point-scoring mental gymnastics for its own sake.

It looks exactly the same as Amazon in every other country. That's a not a good counterpoint.

It gives more details, but it doesn't particularly make the US not look like a bunch of dickholes whose definition of "free market" changes to shape whatever suits them from one moment to the next.

Japanese customers genuinely do like it like that. Rakuten do A/B testing up the wazoo just like every other big ecommerce company.

Especially if you're Google. Matching "anonymous" travel activity to their Google Maps, login, Chrome, and Gmail history should be pretty trivial with a high success rate.

Everyone loses here. It's no longer possible to trust any organisation with your data, because no matter what they say or do, they have no control over what will happen to it if they ever become insolvent.

We're almost certainly talking about literally everything a bot scraping catalogues decides it doesn't have. I highly doubt it'll be discriminating.

the clunkers being removed were heavy polluters

and got replaced with trucks that were twice their size, resulting in zero net gain

• Doesn't solve a problem

• Recording everything around you is fucking creepy

I mean at some stage you have to start wondering about the sort of person with a less-than-one-week-old account that's up in here defending them so vociferously. I notice you're also in other AI threads on Lemmy being equally shilly.

I read your list and stand by my statement. Half the things on that list are novelties that you'd get quickly bored of, and the other half have solutions that don't require pervert glasses. I see zero problems being solved anywhere in the list you just made.