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> The value you provide not only has to beat Google, but also Netflix, Bitwarden...

It's hard to compare the intrinsic value of all services that cost ~10$. Is the ability to search the whole Internet, something you do every single day multiple times, less valuable than watching Netflix shows a few hours every week? Our perceptive is seriously skewed because we've had free (paid with ads+data) web search engines for almost as long as we've had the web. On the other hand, Netflix seems incredibly cheap because for a long time before it, legal access to movies and series was expensive and hard/impossible due to strong copyright laws.

Prepaid doens't have to mean pay-per-use. It can mean I load up 50€ to my account and you debit 10€ per month until the account balance is less than 10€.

What if what I'm trying to translate is sensitive information in itself?

Isn't racism fundamentally a type of caste/class discrimination? Not as well defined castes like seen in India, but "black people" are discriminated as a result of slavery, "asians" as a result of mass immigration. To the point where in many countries you were not allowed or able to marry outside your "caste", had different rights than locals/whites etc. People today don't feel racism as caste discrimination, but to say that there's no precedent in the West is being pedantic IMO.

Any negativity or anger seems to be in the article for purely comedic effect.

> You trading potential tracking by thirdparties with potential tracking by yourself.

You're not making any sense. Proxying all requests is the only way to shield you from being tracked by third parties. If DDG wants to track you they don't need some convoluted dance - you're already on their website.

> Another way in which farmers combat soil compaction is by aeration and tilling.

The problem is that constantly aerating and tilling the soil is destroying microbiomes and fungal networks. It's one of the fundamental principles of regenerative farming. In good industrial fashion, we destroy nature (overfarming) and try solving it (chemical fertilizers) only to destroy it further (mono cultures, no biodiversity, leading to soil degradation, reduced yields), so we try to fix it again (huge machines, more mono cultures), and now these machines are destroying the soil because they are too heavy. It's time to dial back and rethink what we're doing.

If there was any other obvious way to influence google it would instantly be gamed. Both my companies tried to increase their relevance in certain keywords and by competitors reporting their websites.

Those already exist. You can simulate things like color blindness, tunnel vision, low contrast vision, and blurred vision, among other effects.

It's not even just that HIV mutates quickly. After the initial attack, it infiltrates the immune memory cells and injects itself into your DNA and lies dormant for a long time, while these immune cells reproduce happily.

That's pointless gatekeeping. Having the most expensive pencil doesn't make you draw better. For most professionals in most fields, more than 1080p is a waste of energy.

Good defaults are important. There have been constant legal fights against abuse of defaults for decades now (IE, Chrome, search engines, etc). It's time Apple gets served a lawsuit to stop abusing its position as the default software gatekeeper.

Fun fact: the reason why browsers sometimes zoom in on an input is because the input's font size is too small, less than 16px, which is considered not accessible. So it's ironic that to counter that behaviour some people make the page even less accessible by disabling use zoom.

I'm not an Apple user, but that has been pretty much the role of Apple since ever: dictating what you can and can't do in the name of "good user experience". This decision makes sense in the POV of forcing apps to use newer and safer SDKs, and better integration with accessibility features and whatnot.

I don't agree, which is why I don't use Apple, but if anything they are consistent in their values.