Tesla isn't particularly political and there's no Fascist angle?
There is good and bad to gentrification. You don't hear stories of the people who bought their house for 50k in 1980 who then sold it in 2010 for 1.3MM. Or the people thankful they don't have to walk around in fear of gangs for themselves or their children.
TO me the biggest problem is the State. In SF, among many many other things, it's their zoning policies that caused the housing crisis. But they run education and media. So people blame the most revolutionary green company, or others bring wealth to the area, instead of the State.
It's probably a net positive overall though, especially if the money these people are paid (and spend locally) is coming from other parts of the world/country.
Location is everything.
If there is not enough housing and you keep adding jobs then those jobs will be lost. It's better to "lose" a city than an entire country like USA did.
But I think their main concern was gentrification not fascism.
Since Google openly collects data on it's users, I suspect that fact does not sit well with that same populous.
Not entirely. I can choose not to use Gmail or similar services.
I can opt out of Google ads+tracking only because I'm technically adept enough. I can't (realistically) opt out of reCaptcha.
But of course by "opt out" you mean to remain a user of a service but not the parts you don't like. Whether you are entitled to do this or not is still up for debate.
Ah, I was waiting for somebody to make this argument, which I find somewhat disingenuous given how widespread reCaptcha's use is.
With sites I don't care about leaving them is exactly what I do - but there are sites I pay a lot of money to use, and can't really avoid using for business reasons, yet they still subject me to reCaptcha.
The path I've taken instead is to address this with the site owners. Most weren't really aware of how overreaching reCaptcha feels to some, and I've had good discussions. Of course nobody changed their site based on my complaint, but I like to think I raised awareness.
> But of course by "opt out" you mean to remain a user of a service but not the parts you don't like.
Specifically, a part of user verification. I'm still not sure why they feel they need to verify my humanity - they've got my credit card details and everything.
> Whether you are entitled to do this or not is still up for debate.
Let me ask the opposite question: is the owner of a website entitled to sell my privacy for their own (debatable) convenience?
Tbh reCaptcha irks me more than ads.
Well yeah, they are, you're accepting that by using the recaptcha widget. Don't use it and then nobody will sell your data.
With Tesla, I'm directly buying their product or not, and they do have competitors that I could choose from (not particularly great ones yet, I'll admit, but they do exist today and they're going to get there eventually).
With Google's ad tech and captcha, my data is being siphoned off to them by third parties. I'm looking at totally unrelated service X, and suddenly I'm faced with Google. The burden of boycott becomes much higher than in the Tesla case, which makes it reasonable to state that opt-out is "not [practically] possible".
The situations would be comparable if upon encountering a Google captcha I could choose to solve somebody else's captcha to access the same service.
they are not "third-party". If a site uses google's products (like analytics or recaptcha), then you could reasonably consider them partner sites to google.
Indeed, google is difficult to boycott - no one is diputing it. However, google obviously isn't very offensive to a large number of people, because there are very dedicated groups who dedicate time and energy into boycotting companies like nestle (which is _very_ difficult to boycott). May be a lot of laymen just don't think that their data is worth protecting (whether they are right or not remains to be seen).
Furthermore the comment seemed in reference to the origins of fascist political ideology in Europe and their relation to what happened when data mining was weaponized against a population.
Not sure how they can be GDPR compliant, maybe it's only in the US where all cars are tracked in real-time?
I'll join the protests myself.
Like, why do you care?
Second, Twitter has massive impact, and Elon Musk is an ass of a role model.