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It’s good for us Europeans ;)

Companies tend not to do illegal things. Especially if they’re public or have shareholders that might lose significant value if found out. And it’s borderline impossible to stop people finding out.

Well, their competitive advantage too, but they don’t have to be mutually exclusive

Yes. Banks like Monzo allow you to import your other bank accounts into their app. I did it for a while, but ultimately I found it easier to just have separate apps for each. Most apps are very good and improving all the time, so usually one isn’t much better than the other.

I haven’t looked for a one-app-to-rule-them-all, but in principle it’s possible.

I think the UK banking sector is in rude health. It’s very competitive and it’s easy to move. The quality of the apps is very much part of any competitive advantage.

I have accounts with four uk banks and it’s trivial to manage them. It’s an example of legislation working really well.

Which isn’t legal in Europe and the UK. Get better consumer protection laws.

This is pretty extreme, it’s just an app for your convenience. I agree that web access should be provided too, but most people find apps more useful.

Do you not run apps at all?

> My mum was a mechanic, my dad was a mechanic/truck driver. My grandfather and uncle were mechanics...

Mona Lisa Vito, is that you?

> by relying on "connections"

That's just corruption. That's not equitable. In the UK that would be criminal and there's pretty much no way to game the system. That doesn't mean there aren't queues, but nobody gets a preference.

> but have read

You read that where? What evidence do you have? In my experience, Americans are often blissfully unaware about how poor their health services are.

As someone who has seen many health services up close (from founding a health tech company and literally visiting myriad health establishments around the world, over the past few decades), the US hospitals and clinics always struck me as the most run down. But as soon as I walked in the boardroom at UHG or HCA, it suddenly all became a lot more glamorous.

And whilst the US does ok with cancer outcomes, so do other nations like Germany, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Most advanced nations have universal healthcare with similar outcomes to the US, but for significantly less money. They also don’t leave citizens destitute for having the unmitigated gall to impose an unexpected health emergency on themselves.

The US system funnels profit, it doesn’t provide better healthcare.

> It's worse everywhere else.

You’ve dealt with every health system on earth as a patient?

> There are no specialists in all of the government-run systems

This is completely inaccurate. Every government run system has specialists.

Everything you have said is incorrect.

All of this, plus it seems like every other roof is plastered with solar panels.

Is the rule of law popular in the US? I thought it had been disposed of as “an inconvenience”?

At least that’s what it looks like from the rest of the world

> the consenst banner is required either way.

Consent is required. The banner is just one mechanism, but not required. A website could hold off on all tracking until a suitable point in the usage of the site (like creating a profile, for example) and ask at that point.

The banner is an artefact of the hostile way most sites choose to try and hoodwink the user into being monetised and ultimately to piss users off so much that they complain about the legislation rather than the lack of online privacy.

Very much so.