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> a fast, modern and extremely nice to use browser already

That's some revisionist lies. Slow, crashy, a memory pig with a big leak problem, stuck on a single process architecture. It was none of fast or modern. Whether it was extremely nice to use is debatable, but lots of people rapidly voted by switching.

It very regularly crashed and took down the entire process.

It's fine to lament the Chrome monoculture, but we misdiagnosis it if we don't remember the seeds were sown via Mozilla's incompetence. They made it crystal clear they couldn't and wouldn't do better, and the next 5 or more years made that inarguable.

Well, there are plenty of lies. Because tenants are liable for the supposed damages regardless of whether landlords can grab $100/mo or whatever.

That's not to say that pets can cause tons of damage: if someone let's a cat spray inside and doesn't immediately clean it, that can cost tens of thousands if it seeps down to the underlayment. But (1) that ain't getting covered by the $50 - $100 they want to gouge people for; and (2) tenants are liable for that either way.

Holy shit. You are, if anything, underselling the article.

> When TechCrunch asked Mullenweg if his comments about being back as CEO were legitimate, he promised a blog post was coming. When it arrived, however, it was about him buying a houseboat. When we asked if his comments about being back were also him trolling, he replied, “I’m not a troll I’m a pirate, obviously.” Mullenweg never provided any official comment about his return, but noted on X that this was likely the fifth time he’s faced a “coup.”

And like all well-run companies, it's not clear who the ceo is.

It's multiple records per user over time. See something like posthog. One interaction with a form can generate 10-15 events. eg enter page, click link with text "settings", change input, clicked input, etc. So active users can generate 15-150 events per session, each ~1kb to 2kb in size.

The reason to store that data is to be able to build analytics and funnels you didn't anticipate and construct them retrospectively. You can of course save massive amounts of storage by building rollups and aggregating, but that prevents you from being able to eg change the funnels and see the funnel in the past.

10M users × 100 events/day × 1KB ≈ 1TB/day. A couple years gets you into PB range.

The other obvious thing is logs. Being able to have a vulnerability then go back in time and see if you were exploited is super valuable. See eg log4shell: if you kept records, you probably could go back and see if you'd been exploited.

That's it. The scammers display ads. Two scams: one is mostly or entirely artificial traffic; a second is eg low quality ad slots disguised as higher quality. For the latter, think ads in videos shown off screen with programmatic interaction to make it appear as if the legit traffic saw and interacted with the ads.

An American who interacts with health insurance can easily do that. Insurers will literally try not to pay just because some percentage of people give up.

I went to the dentist recently. They wanted to do a "deep cleaning". cost: somewhere between $0 (covered) and $5k (fully out of pocket). I asked the obvious: that's one hell of a range. "Depends on how much the insurer will pay." They weren't happy when I demanded to know that number before committing, as it takes them hours on the phone.

there goes their veblen goods...

I'm aware. Like I said, you're foolish to trust google. That said, the claim in the reddit post: that the ban spread across the entire gsuite account and also any account that used that device, is far more aggressive.

Google sells 100 gi for $2/mo. So it's a lot more than 2g.

And for aluminum in particular, the US is essentially importing dirt-cheap hydro energy.

Yeah, a $800k property paying 0.2% or $1600/year is... seems low for the provision of roads, schools, firefighters, etc.