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And in time it will be discovered that an FB employee 'accidentally' committed code to enable this data flow.

FB will 'apologise' and promise a 'full investigation'.

This is a well-worn track pioneered by Google, a track that leads to a trove of data and no fines, no penalties.

> I suspect the true total cost was a fair bit higher due to a hosting arrangement.

Untrue.

When the goal is to buy Blogger - a goal that is being progressed towards by Automattic - money saved on the Tumblr acquisition is useful.

Ah. I stand corrected. Thank you.

> This was not like Theranos where he was straight up lying about a product working

She.

The Guardian has gone downhill in the last few years, just like the rest of UK mainstream news reporting. They have rolled over to do whatever the Government wants not reporting - take Assange for example.

Their coverage is practically non-existent.

I used to buy The Guardian every day, then I subscribed digitally. And then when their reporting slid downhill, I stopped subscribing. I still read it - but block their data scraping scripts and all ads. They are not worth supporting IMO.

Do they have their mobile devices with them? Electronic trail.

Did they appear in any photos? There's a trail.

Did they buy anything in that locality?

Did they call someone in that locality?

Just not using a card would seem to offer little protection unless they take care of at least the above.

Spyware for all the family!

This would be more useful to me if when I hovered the link it told me more about what they actually make and the language they post in.

It's too random otherwise.

"Also: Let me be the first to say that I can’t believe there’s still no Postgres support, which is absolutely outrageous."

Postgres is open source.

Why do they owe you?

If it matters, write the code.

"didn't pay for privacy"

If you don't pay your info is public.

What did you expect?

Q: Did Google create - and promote from their dominant position - AMP for anyone but their own interests?

A: No. Why would you be so naive to think otherwise?