the logical thing to do is whatever gets the most people on the site the fastest, not do something that instantly alienates a massive amount of people

Not true. Facebook knows no one is leaving (at least not in any significant numbers). So what makes them money is showing ads. What allows them to show more ads is people staying on the site longer. What keeps people on the site longer is “engagement”. The easiest way to keep people “engaged” is to sow discord.

Just think about it, are you more inclined to comment on an image of a cute puppy, or a post where someone is spreading disinformation?

Honestly its probably for the best. When people started investigating the “Fact checkers”, it was discovered that they didn’t know anything about the checks that were attributed to them.

Why would they be on Zuck’s payroll if they weren’t going to help him?

It defintely is a huge issue, considering resistive heaters use 3x as much energy. Most EVs have a “low range” and anything you can do increase it without adding more batteries and weight, especially in winter, is a huge advantage.

It uses the same amount of energy to create cold as it does to create heat.

Pretty sure they meant EVs

You forgot Ultra

You left out the part about Honey charging sellers to hide coupons.

It’s more expensive in remote areas and areas without competition.

Lemmy may be free to access, but certainly not free to host. Am I paying for it personally? No, but someone is.

“Someone” is paying to host every website. The point is it’s free to you.

Exactly my point.

I don’t understand what any of that has to do with what you or I said.

Apple is always silent, because they know they have no justification for their bullshit.

No one thinks Apple, or any other ecosystem for that matter, is completely private. It’s just far more private than Android. Primarily because Apple is not an advertising company.

or is the logic that they’re giving a discount because they can make the extra money with the data.

Yes that is what I said.

but now it’s the norm and they can charge more for it and still make more money selling data.

They still have to compete with all the other TV manufacturers.

is actually cheaper or the “dumb TV” is just overpriced?

I don’t know what that means. I don’t know how old you are or where you are getting your perspective from but before TVs were “smart” they cost waaaay more. Back in like 2012 I paid ~$2k for a 50" plasma TV. Still have the receipt.

This is just a way to inflate the price of the TV

It’s not. It’s far more valuable. It’s a data-mining tool.

Quite the opposite, actually. The “smart” part gives you huge discounts because they expect to make it back on the data they collect.

Lemmy is a text based social media

No it is not. It is a link aggregator. Can be text, can be images, can be video, can be news, etc. etc.

That makes no sense. The problem is not that an extension is tampering with tracker links, it is that it is falsely attributing itself as a sales representative.