That makes no sense.

The only difference between a public company and a private company (in this sense) is how liquid the asset is, said another way, how easy it is to enter or exit the position, and how regularly the holdings value is recalculated.

I could buy 100k of valve stock of someone tomorrow, and then find myself wishing I’d bought NVIDIA. I could buy NVIDIA tomorrow, and it could crash and I could wish I’d bought in to Valve.

But companies don’t always chase profit.

They can also chase growth and the appearance of a company that could or will make money one day. Ex Uber when it first came out and destroyed the taxi industry practically overnight.

Valve might not be a publically traded company, but it sti has shareholders. Some of those shareholders still want Valve to increase value, etc.

The difference is that valve has a songle large share holder who seems to just not give a fuck about those pressures. While most (all) publically traded companies crumble and fall to that pressure.

The US won’t. The EU probably will.

But they want you to use their app.

And they’ve decided if you have a HA plugin, you won’t.

So we do our research, and avoid scumbag companies when making purchasing decisions, or more likely, pick the lesser of a several evils.

This is ridiculous. It is truly ridiculous. How can something that enables the user to efficiently control their AC cause “significant economic harm”???

I assume they have their own app and run ads/user analytics through it that make them money.

I have to wonder if you bought their products on the basis that they worked with HA, if you could have some sort of claim here.

So it’s only insider trading if they get it right? But not just kind of right, like, really right.

So it’s only kind of insider trader because it’s only 5%?

While the engineers could have said that, equally Elon could have asked what the problems/downsides were to doing it faster.

Easy: doing so would cost too much money, for not enough profit gain.

Aka, there isn’t enough competition between airlines

Is it the ego feeding or keeping Twitter (“X”) front of mind? Kind of like 2010 lady gaga constantly one upping herself to stay in the news (meat dress anyone?)

Firefox currently enjoys protection from being “relatively niche” in the browser market (aka not Chromium based trash).

But if I had to place a bet on which browser would put effort in to protecting your privacy, including which extensions are installed, my bet would be on Firefox over Chrome.

This only applies if a username is a email

And if it is then what happens when people actually email someone? Autocorrect during login?

It’s stories like this that don’t surprise me as much as make me ask: How the fuck do you store and process this much data to get anything useful out of it.

Which is a possible future.

But it’s less likely if more people use Firefox.

Install Firefox.

Install Firefox

Ok, I got it wrong guys

Chrome has won

Let’s all go home, install a Chromium-based spyware-laced browser and bow down to our Google overlords.

Your bank will only do it, if, and only if, Chrome is a majority of browsers they see.

How do you stop that? By not using it.

Everyone keeps postulating over a terrible future, but won’t actually do anything now, today, to help prevent it.

Google can’t make websites update.

Websites will only update to Chrome specific things if Chrome is the dominant browser.

How do you stop Chrome being the dominant browser? By not using it.