If you haven't seen it, Honey (owned by PayPal) and Phia, have been caught stealing referral attributions. These are often small content creators.
They also rarely find genuine discounts. Avoid using them.
I posted about this yesterday re: the recent USA Today-specific partnership - but not as many saw the comment related to them not being the only ones:
USA Today Co. isn’t the only media company to enlist Palantir’s services. Axel Springer - which owns Business Insider, Politico, Bild, and The Telegraph - and Fox News have also partnered with Palantir for its data intelligence tools. Thomson Reuters also supplies data to Palantir, which had been used by ICE - 404 Media reported in March.
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I recommend adding their domains (and palantir's) to your computer's firewalls/filtering:
How-to: PC | Mac
Domains (pastebin):
Additionally, remember:
"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"
On par with entire countries, including Switzerland, Ireland, and Bulgaria.
Incredibly sad to see as we battle record-breaking heatwaves. We need to stop supporting these companies...
Every year someone asks what I want for my birthday or Christmas and my mind just goes blank, then I end up with socks. And all year I see stuff I actually want and forget about it by the time it matters.
So I made Pica. It's a wishlist app for iOS.
The main thing is you can share to it from any app or browser, or just paste a link, and it grabs the title, image, shop and price for you. I wanted adding something to take about 2 seconds, otherwise you just don't bother doing it.
Then you share the list with friends and family and they can reserve items. Reservations are hidden from you so you still get surprised, but everyone else can see what's taken so you don't end up with 3 of the same thing. That was genuinely the problem in my family group chat every December!
Other stuff that's in there:
It's free. There's a premium tier for unlimited lists, photo covers and seeing who reserved what, but the normal stuff works without paying.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pica-your-digital-wishlist/id6788115057
Would really appreciate any feedback, especially on the onboarding as I've looked at it so long I can't tell what's confusing anymore. Also if you find a shop whose links don't get picked up properly let me know and I'll fix it.
Most of these costs you aren't directly exposed to, as you often buy Windows 11 pre-installed on a laptop/PC
A big part of it is that the more people listen to their generated content, the less they have to pay actual artists.
And it's why they have one of the lowest average royalties per stream.
Music streaming companies with active anti-AI policies are: Qobuz, Tidal and Deezer
Bandcamp is always worth mentioning if you want to buy music directly
More users are being pushed to AI-first search, with sites that create content seeing a rapid decline in traffic.
No better time to move away from Google.
They have access to people's private emails and documents, and more & more of your data is being used to train their AI models. These situations will increasingly happen.
The best thing you can do is move to a provider that keeps your information private.