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I would say this is a little too pessimistic. Legislation in the EU and California have both forced tech companies hands, it’s why we can download all our data and delete all our data (supposedly, doubtful in reality) on the large tech platforms. The issue I see is getting legislation that attaches itself to a standard controlled by the W3C. You are right that it won’t be something done by the US federal government though.

It’s a problem for anyone entering politics. It takes incredible resolve and character to resist selling out. He just didn’t have what it takes.

Tragic, the line didn’t just go up because one investment was really good.

I’m just replying to the “quality and cost” part of your post, which are inherently paired. Yes some products just don’t exist being made in the US, but if the store has a product that costs twice as much made domestically sitting next to a foreign product of the same or close enough quality, the price alone will dictate which they choose. This is often why domestically made versions of products aren’t available without a special order (which is even more expensive) and where tariffs are supposed to be used.

Hard to match cost when labor rights such as minimum wage exist, maybe Trump and Elon will get rid of those too though.

I completely agree that it needs to be amazon-wide. But the reality is it’s a lot easier to close down some nameless warehouse in the area when you can still deliver to your customers out of another nameless warehouse. It’s a lot harder to shut down a store that customers expect to exist and remain where it is. I do think we think alike in the fact that unionization can stem from their customer facing properties into their “business” properties that are hidden from the public.

Hopefully they don’t just shutter the store and open a new one a town over. Maybe whole foods is the entry point for unions into other amazon subsidiaries.

Nvidia about to be selling through another country as Mvidia with their Shifty 90 series.

Tariffs: A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.

You provide a service, not goods. You will be unaffected by any tariffs.

Centralization is a weakness. These services can be targeted by governments that want to limit communication. Free speech is a commodity, and servers host this free speech. If a hostile organization, such as a government, targets a channel of free speech such as those hosted on a platform that makes it easy to setup a mastodon instance, this become an easy target that will affect a large portion of users. If you are serious about freedom, you have the freedom to self-host your own platforms.

Edit: I realize my post doesn’t answer the question proposed, but it’s more of an argument against such services. I would argue self-hosting doesn’t rely on paying third-parties to host your software, but I guess this is in the eye of the hoster.

When I say residential IP addresses, I mostly mean proxies using residential IPs, which allow scrappers to mask themselves as organic traffic.

Edit: Your point stands on there are a lot of services without these protections in place, but a lot of services are protective against scrapping.

I mean it’s true, in the same sense that in some countries you don’t flush the toilet paper as it will cause plumbing issues. It’s all about design of the plumbing at that point, and in places where you flush toilet paper it shouldn’t be that big of a concern unless they skimped on the plumbing.

Also as my grandma taught me, there is such a thing as a courtesy flush before ya wipe.

Well, that’s something I learned today, didn’t know these were a thing.

a bidet a better investment

Edit: A sports water bottle can provide a strong stream of water. That’s all I going to say

Crazy idea: Treat people like people and they’ll want to work for you. If you need a consultancy to figure this out, you are the problem.

That’s why I treat it like a Chuck E. Cheese ticket machine and use about 50 tiles a wipe.

The only way I can think of is require users to authenticate themselves, but this isn’t much of a hurdle.

To get into the details of it, what do you define as an AI bot? Are you worried about scrappers grabbing the contents of you website? What is the activities of an “AI Bot”. Are you worried about AI bots registering and using your platform?

The real answer is not even cloudflare will fully defend you from this. If anything cloudflare is just making sure they get paid for access to your website by AI scappers. As someone who has worked around bot protections (albeit in a different context than web scrapping), it’s a game of cat and mouse. If you or some company you hire are not actively working against automated access, you lose as the other side is active.

Just think of your point that they are using residential IP addresses. How do they get these addresses? They provide addons/extensions for browsers that offer some service (generally free VPNs) in exchange for access to your PC and therefore your internet in the contract you agree to. The same can be used by any addon, and if the addon has permissions to read any website they can scrape those websites using legit users for whatever purposes they want. The recent exposure of the Honey scam highlights this, as it’s very easy to get users to install addons by selling users they might save a small amount of money (or make money for other programs). There will be users who are compromised by addons/extensions or even just viruses that will be able to extract the data you are trying to protect.

Ideally it wouldn’t be, but corporations will use whatever video platform is popular to pump out videos designed to increase engagement because to them it’s advertising. They will try and sponsor their content on whichever content creator is on said platform with a large audience.

This solves nothing if the goal is engagement. Any engagement in corporate properties is a form of engagement which promotes the media being presented. A corporate sponsored video is a corporate sponsored video, regardless of the platform.