The mobile carriers and device OEM's already participate directly in the Amber alert program. Why is X even part of this?

I read that headline, and your comment, and immediately inferred WSJ is victim-blaming people just for eating breakfast. The sheer audacity of it...

The stencil pack didn’t have enough 0’s

Ad tech IS the tracking, so if you're not blocking ads, you're not actually refusing said tracking. I think you might be conflating cookies with being tracking (they are), but that's only a part of it.

The only time I ever fell for a "lifetime" software purchase was back when Trillian (the IM client) was popular. That lasted less than 5 years. Then they released "Astas", which was just a UI refresh, but they treated it like it was a whole new company and product. "Lifetime" is always a scam.

"Sharing" is a funny way to word a headline. They are selling it, for a profit, because it's legal. It's immoral and shady as hell, but "prevent it or expect it" applies here.

“Protect your privacy” is literally why we use uBO…

He is facing his second Christmas without his mother

He's a senior citizen, that is such a weak grab for pity.

So Google, like Amazon, is trying to play the "they work for a subcontractor that only supports us, so it's their fault, not ours" card. I really want to see the NLRB smack this pattern down hard and set an example for all the other companies to try to avoid unionization by way of not directly hiring people.

They are veiled layoffs

Re-parsing that for anyone trying to read that but struggling with the formatting war crime from OP.

• The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request
• The attempted sabotage of JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/
• Web Environment Integrity a.k.a. DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, opensource browsers, and OSes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

Some day, we'll have a technology sub that isn't polluted with Twitter "news".