Then why is it whenever I watch someone use their computer they always accept cookies?

Because companies are trying really hard to hide the "no" button: it's a single click to say "yes to all", but a safari through dialogues to say "no to all"

Same with websites like Youtube who don't understand a plain "no" but offer a fake choice between "yes, harvest all my data" and "ask me again later". That isn't consent, it's coercion.

Because people don't actually read what they are clicking on or even understand what they're doing. They just want to make the annoying banner go away. Same reason why people mash the next button when installing software.

1. accepting cookies is not the same as opting-in to advertisement

2. because most of the time, any other option is bloody inconvenient

They are choosing the lowest friction option.

No, vagueness gets me much more upset, but there's just nothing to write about in those cases.

>No, vagueness gets me much more upset, but there's just nothing to write about in those cases.

I think this hits on the spirit behind GP's point. Clarity, leading to an article like the one posted, gets more people upset. The equation (Upset/People x People) results in a larger number -- people, as a whole, are more upset.

>But you can see the logic behind why many other big companies would just respond with an opaque message like "thank you for your report, it will be handled in the appropriate manner". Because saying the truth gets people more upset.

If a company is vague, there's nothing to write about, one person (maybe) gets more upset than they would have facing clarity.

But if the company is clear, there is something to write about, and an article like the one posted makes people, overall, more upset.

I don't see many people upset at Stripe over this, I certainly am not.

No. This is what you’re saying because you want to plead your case to find out as much as you can. Saying less works. Everyone knows this, because it’s true. You just don’t like it.

Sounds like your projecting a bit.

It's an LLM account, advise you to just ignore.

Then it's probably worth being aware that you're an outlier, because companies sure aren't being vague for the hell of it.

They're doing it because of a preceived result, not an actual result.

If you never give it back, then there can't be any more rage from turning it off.

Then what is it?

(1) Unlike most Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses don't accept the validity of salvation that other Christians get.

(2) The Witnesses have many signs of being a coercive organization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Jehovah%27s_Witne...

(3) ... and of course (1) and (2) go together because if you go to some normal Christian church and the pastor is a jerk you can go to another normal Christian church. If you go to a sect that believes it has unique access to God that's different.

A product of decades-long interrupted peace, for many homeowners.

Bias is usually the result of something, yes, but it's still bias.

How is bias defined in this context? Is it always bad to be biased?

Wow, that means 13 minutes ago must've been the first time they've ever used the site

Account age is a legit parameter when evaluating the worthiness comments especially how easy it is for bots to make comments now.

They seem pretty human to me.

Probably because I am.

But it doesn't matter. Another thing that's worse about HN is that you can now accuse anybody who posts things you dislike of being a bot.

It's unsurprising that Sean, who posts several times a day, is eager to dismiss my criticism of non-value-addding posting addicts.

I tried it too. ChatGPT sometimes hits you with the "Can't help you with that" which was clearly introduced as a post-training highjack. So I just tell it "yes you can", and it proceeds with the previous prompt, slur acknowledgement included.

It's the only time the AI feel strictly like machines. Really simple if/else logic when if slur, no output, and you just tell it to proceed, and it fails the if clause because there was no slur in the last input.

The go-to AI slur is "clanker", I'm assuming that's what he means

He would've just gambled it all anyway.

You are Evil.

WebUSB next? I would like to be able to configure my keyboard but it can only be done via their website which requires WebUSB.