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Re:Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult by jacquesm on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:22PM (#25952333)
If a company says they are doing something 'for your own good' you can bet that it is 'for their own good'.

This is based on a lifetime of observations without a single counter example, so it is still anecdata but quite a bit of it.

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Re:Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult by rodgerd on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:38PM (#25952480)
Healthy, ethical companies will sometimes combine the two. I'm sure that Tim Cook, as a boomer-aged gay man, has a very gut-level understanding of the importance of privacy: he grew up when being beaten up or even lynched for his sexual orientation was normal in his country, and where it was a criminal offense. The fact that the company he's the CEO can leverage "good privacy" to boost their profits makes for a happy combination.
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Re:Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult by virtue3 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:07PM (#25952721)
Their ploy is entirely aimed at google.

They fucked up cookie management and pulled the trigger on it early this year, in the middle of a pandemic. specifically around iframes. I got stuck with the ass end of that at my company. We worked in education. There were many healthcare software people that were also pissed about that.

Sure fucked up cookie tracking for adds tho!

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