Several law firms have pursued this option, one of which was sued by Valve for allegedly attempting to “extort” the company with a threat of mass arbitration with more than 50,000 people. (This lawsuit was dismissed in August without prejudice, meaning Valve could re-file.)

The idea is that the sheer number of arbitration cases would force Valve to settle with all of them with the same resolution, instead of arbitrating them all individually. Arbitration is usually less expensive than litigation, but on this mass scale, it can easily become overwhelming for the company the disputes are with. “In states like California where businesses must pay most of the arbitration fees in a consumer claim, the business would be required to pay a filing fee for each individual claimant,” Steinberg said. “With fees of approximately $1,500 per claim, a claim with thousands of individuals could cost millions in filing fees.”

Chinese vehicles sold in the US would have the same internet connectivity as a base 2007 Honda Civic. Surveillance by the Chinese would be practically impossible with those limitations.

yeah sure, we all know the us government blocks trackers of the bloatware built into chinese smartphones, chinese network routers, and all other things. Except they don’t.

Chinese vehicles sold in the US would have the same internet connectivity as a base 2007 Honda Civic.

I would even consider buying them, then. Honestly. It’s increasingly hard to find such cars.

I’m not a US citizen, neither of them are safe in any amount. Speaking of that, my country has ever increasing chinese influence, imported by our most corrupt goverment ever, along with loans that we will pay for decades, if not for longer. Chinese surveillance tech is appearing everywhere, like hundres of hikvision cameras.

I don’t think I’m a minority here.

I also don’t want to buy a Tesla ever, neither travel in one, and I’m pretty confident with today’s climate that I won’t ever have a car.
I dont want to travel to the US, but to china even less so.
The wrongdoings of theUS does not make china any better of an option.

oh you absolutely have to be worried about china. I don’t care specifically about anyone, and so I don’t care specifically about the US. Everyone having this much access is dangerous

there is this approach where if the neighbor is loud, you first try to speak with them, and if they don’t care then you go to the police. have you heard of it?

I think a big part of the problem is that they didn’t show anyone a notification or an onboarding dialog or whatever about this feature, when it got introduced.

Firefox is still the superior browser in my opinion.

or the least bad, as I have been thinking about it lately

I’m pretty sure anyone who believes that is quite misguided. tell me next that xiaomi phones and robot vacuums are privacy minded. we should also shift to wechat, right?

in my understanding offset is technically the “relative index”, or how much you have to go further

I can guess too! With my guess, AI is already using 420 TWh annually!

What if we wouldn’t guess anything like this? This is not just not meaningful, but straight out misleading.

I’m surprised they aren’t offsetting the cost by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is

aren’t they doing it? but at least by looking at how much they like locking out people until they give out their phone number, I suspect they are not collecting it without having further use for it

penpot?

Same. In the last few years (2-3 probably, I don’t count) I don’t think I have given it out anywhere. I just pretend to not have a phone number, and if people think that’s weird I don’t care, deal with it. Nowadays if a service requires my phone number, I don’t need that service. Or in rare cases I’ll try to find a free online number for receiving a code, but that’s the only alternative I take.

It was even just registered 4 days ago

None of the samsung devices are in my book. Especially since they strive to physically destroy all of your devices if their certified services detected that you have done any servicing to it.

By the way, does anyone know if this also applies to replacing the software?
Because then, thanks to their e-fuses, flashing the original software will not save you either.

Because paying is easy and convenient

Besides, with uBO (or a custom addon or userscript) you can replace the value of that list, for all sites or selectively

Websites don’t get to see what addons are you running

New means from yesterday, not from last week

We need that for DDG. Opt-in, of course, but with a banner that makes it clear why is that really needed

Does that mean the only official email app will be the one that uploads the passwords to all your email accounts to Microsoft?