defgsus

Yes, that's very likely. While it seems that big-tech does not like regulations too much, i imagine that a regulation requiring them too listen-in on anything around their devices might actually one they'd not oppose, to say the least.

A couple of years ago (before OpenÄI), i imagined that in the not-too-far future, an average iphone will probably call the police if it detects inappropriate behavior above some threshold. Like domestic violence, a robbery, etc.

The reasoning would be: because our AIs are so much part of everyone's life, it would be irresponsible to not call the police if the algorithm says so. Because we, as a multi-national, gigantic corporation, deeply care about everyone's well-being. That's our highest priority!

Sorry for the terrible utm parameters in the link but they are actually part of the story. No tracking involved on my side.

I just copied them from another post (#23546568) which stood out because it still had utm parameters after Hacker News obviously removes them since 2018.

That is certainly good practice as you otherwise might disturb the statistics ;-)

Imagine sharing a link unaltered from some android app and now company X thinks the android users are actually growing.

If i think about it, actually, we should add randomly swizzled utm params to all posted links ;)

So actually, yes they got removed! I tried those typical:

?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed-Blabla

Sorry for the stupid link, i just wanted to test if HN is actually filtering out those utm parameters because they almost completely disappeared in May 2018.