Google is really damned if they do, damned if they don’t here. Third party cookies are very privacy invasive, but replacing it with Chrome watching everything you do and acting as an ad broker is also not great. As long as Google is providing targeted advertising (which you could opt out of in privacy sandbox) then there’s not a really great solution.

I do think they dragged this along enough that all sites now operate properly with third party cookies disabled, so that’s a benefit at least.

This assumes as a tenant you have physical access to the boiler room. From the video, it seems like this person might have that access, but not everyone might.

Right yeah enjoyable entertainment is my requirement, why pay for something and waste my time if I’m not having fun

Marty: “Are you telling me you built a time machine… Out of a Cybertruck??”

Doc Brown: “The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?”

Marty: “So you picked a Cybertruck??? What the fuck doc, it’s hideous. This is heavy, doc”

I haven’t heard of the game but see that it’s going for $27. For me at least, buying a $27 game, I’d expect 10 hours minimum of enjoyable gameplay, which throws the free refund out the window if it would deliver.

It could be possible that they wanted to increase their game length to justify the price and stretched things if the first 80 minutes were tedious and slow. I’m sure there’s some consideration to front load the enjoyment into the first few hours, with or without the refund, but I would assume lesser priced games would focus on that and not one going for this price.

Even when back to the future enters public domain, if someone ever makes a version with the cybertruck, I’m going to be pissed at you first. The only exception is if the cybertruck can’t make it to 88mph and breaks down and the Libyans kill Marty so we don’t have to suffer any longer.

You can even get every achievement in a game, and return it for a full refund, granted you can beat the game in under two hours. Someone did it with resident evil 3 remake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp8a5EjAcGs

Won’t this push it past the 100 day extension period congress did authorize in the original bill that was signed into law? Even if Trump said he won’t enforce the fine for Google, Apple, and Oracle for distributing the app, Democrats should make it clear they will go after those companies once Trump no longer controls the DoJ.

Not sure how true it was, but there was a YouTuber claiming that their videos were getting entirely demonetized because too many of their viewers had Ad blockers enabled. So even though 75% of people were seeing ads on the video, Google was keeping that ad revenue, withholding it all from the creator because 25% weren’t getting ads. The claim the youtuber made is that this will probably predominantly impact creators with a more tech savvy / privacy aware audience, resulting in less of that niche content.

Anyway, this is anecdotal, but I wouldn’t put it past Google to pass the issue to the creators for the actions of their consumers, even though it’s not their fault.

If your school or employer has an MDM solution on their laptop that they issue to you, you have 0% of privacy. You could use DNS over HTTPS which will prevent your DNS queries from being picked up, but the MDM could issue their own CA and even intercept https traffic. They can also record your keystrokes and screen. It would be wise to think of the machine as compromised, just not by a threat actor.

For maximum privacy, only use the devices for the minimal work necessary. Don’t log into anything for personal use, and use a separate device you’ve purchased yourself.