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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Yeah the article stub doesn’t link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don’t have a session.

    It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.

    In this very particular situation I’m glad most companies are lazy and stupid.

    I don’t particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don’t make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.
















  • I do. It’s called embedded telematics. Here’s the first Google result for it:

    “Just like a smartphone, a vehicle that is equipped with embedded telematics has a cellular modem built into it right from the factory. This embedded telematics modem allows the car to connect to the cellular network and communicate with other internet-connected devices such as mobile phones.”

    But be very careful about information on disabling or modifying these things, most cars after 2018 will straight up no longer work if you disable them.

    Unverifiable stuff, don’t trust: I’ve seen the data first hand and worked with companies that provide services to “de-anonimize” the data produced through various systems to provide targetable consumer lists.

    It’d take exactly zero effort to find your cars driving activity and when you (your cell phone) were in the car. And anyone with money can get it.

    Is it “legal” probably not? Do corporations care? Absolutely not. Legal costs are nothing compared to be value this shit provides