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worth noting that google/twitter/facebook/reddit/others colluded to combine sessions, identifiers, so that any person getting identified on any one session / ip would be identified on all

so while this comment is apt, i would ask them what they think of the previous chicxulub impact of the 2012 era collusion - which to this day has not been reported on

(just realized emacs bindings work in comments, nice, no ctrl-x tho)

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> (just realized emacs bindings work in comments, nice, no ctrl-x tho)

Are you using macOS? If so, those keybindings work everywhere.

As far as I can tell, Hacker News doesn't impose any custom keybindings (the client-side scripting on this site[0] is very simple).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js

Emacs bindings also work on Linux in GTK apps, if you enable them:

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"

If you make Qt follow GTK settings, they also work in many Qt apps, too, but in a more limited way.

I was going to ask for more info on this collusion but you say it wasn't reported. And googling "chicxulub" just gives a volcano.

Is this speculation, or has it been confirmed somewhere?

"Chicxulub impact" seems to be functioning as a bit of hyperbole to imply that this collusion was absolutely devastating, by analogy to the K-T extinction event 66 million years ago.

Not that I really can tell what this was devastating to. Maybe United States v. Apple (2012), where Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins publishers, Macmillan publishers, Penguin Group, Inc., and Simon & Schuster, Inc. conspired with Apple to raise ebook prices?

I can't say for sure, but is it possible they're referring to the founding of the Internet Association in 2012?[0]

I don't think it's that, because the Wikipedia article makes it seem like it was a force for good, but at the time, it wasn't certain at all that it would be that way.[1]

Beyond that, I'm not exactly sure what might be meant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Association

[1] https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xs4qw/google_facebo...

Colluded how?

By exchanging and correlating data presumably? For example, anything I send or receive on Discord, I see reflected in my YouTube recommendations shortly after. It's downright egregious at times.

Most likely it's just run of the mill Google analytics/adsense tags in discord. Don't forget that discord is web tech and loads all kinds of JS bundles – including trackers. The best solution is to stop using discord, but the second best solution is to only use the web app version of Discord. When you use the web app, you can install adblock and anti-tracking extensions. The amount of data that Discord sends which gets blocked by these extensions is eye opening.

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