Pretty sure many of the cars sold now have a SIM card or something similar which the manufacturer pays for up front. I don’t think it takes much for them to ping periodically with the information they’d like to track and this ensures they get the data.

Still, don’t connect your car to the Internet, as that could give them way more data but I doubt that that doing that alone will completely stop the tracking.

Edit: typo

It’s better when it’s fresh! I started when 3 books were out and reread leading up to each new book as well.

I read Wheel of Time as well! Loved those too.

Oathbringer is my favorite, though I also really like Rhythm of War.

Yeah, Dalinar is easily my favorite.

The Stormlight Archive. This will be my 4th time. They’re my comfort books.

Yes

When I looked up the definition of “Emotional Abuse”. It seemed I was the last person to see it.

Man, I really miss Stadia. I used it for a year and it worked flawlessly. Even still have the app on my phone as I couldn’t bring myself to uninstall it.

Audiobooks at 2x speed seemed to help me. I didn’t notice the lag in the story as much.

My extended family from Idaho/Montana say “Ruff”.

Somewhat similarly, when they say wolf it’s said as “wuff”.

Ruff

So I tied and onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.

The worse results likely refers to results for advertisers but this will impact Meta’s ad revenue in the long run.

The article cited an example with almost zero sales with CPMs of $250, which is crazy high. I’d also bet the biggest chunk of advertisers using these tools don’t have sophisticated advertising strategies or resources. Many of them will probably pause these poor performing campaigns and be very restrictive with future budgets until performance improves.

In short, Meta took a lot of money in a short time but didn’t earn much money back for advertisers, so they will spend less in the future and less money make Meta sad.

Yup, I’ve got mad filters on my work email.

Yup. Currently work at an ad tech company and we just pushed a new ad surface and the executives freaking loved it. It adds on additional revenue without putting any of the current revenue at risk. Internally, the narrative was super positive while externally it was “Well, that’s kind of annoying”.

So long as user engagement doesn’t totally tank, they see it as a complete win.

This is a really interesting idea. It would address one of the biggest hurdles I’ve had with full Lemmy adoption. I find a lot of the communities for many topics can be fractured with seemingly duplicative communities. It could also allow the larger user base to decrease the dependency on a particular instance.