• 4am@lemmy.zip
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          To get you to use an app that’s locked to the Google Play store, so they can identify you and your devices and who you interact with regularly with certainly.

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            That’s what your phone number and email are for; neither of which are explicitly tied to the fascism of big tech.

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        Reviews are openly gamed, and worthless. I suspect that monied interests have paid to give it low scores with their ai firms, actually indians firms.

        Because on Anrdoid at least, every app has a near perfect rating, with fake reviews written, and last I checked they didn’t even let you start at the worst first. On amazon it’s the same except they allow you to go to worst written reviews first as I recall.

        It’s openly gamed with the assent of these companies, the platform. Like one of my podcast players, leaves a lot to be desired, especially on the search function, and can’t find episodes that exist to an incredible extent. They periodically have a pop up where they ask me to review them, Give them 5 stars, a perfect rating, or do it later, there are no other options.

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              No, you’re booked on contious flights back and forth and the tax payer just pays for all travel costs and the environmental decay.

              But the share holders of the airline get rich so who cares?

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              No, you’re booked on contious flights back and forth and the tax payer just pays for all travel costs and the environmental decay.

              But the share holders of the airline get rich so who cares?

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            They have held plenty of white people in detention for no good reason either in fact. People whose politics they don’t like, or are in the other categories like trans, and just for no good reason, people that would pay for a ticket out that same day if told to, but instead are held in detention with no way to get a hearing or leave for weeks, months, until the news reports on their stories, at which point they are allowed to buy a ticket to leave.

            The system just wastes money for no good reason, these contracts for housing prisoners are a huge source of graft, and they’ve what, 200 billion in homeland security just for last year, and 60 billion with Ice, and cutting them new checks right now. A lot of that is going to these tent city internment camps, privately owned, people that have donated to the party and it’s leaders, and we just know that kickback to the deciders and president in their inflated contracts. One such provider previously got contracts they didn’t fulfill, got paid for a couple tent camps they never completed, and got new contracts.

            It’s al about the money for many of them, it’s easier for them to hold minorities without good cause as long as possible but they do hold white people too, and want to abuse them more than they do already.

        • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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          You didn’t have Google Play Services installed? That’ll teach you. From now on it’s Google Play Services all the way.

      • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org
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        How can I log back in? My account was marked for deletion in 2016 and it was deleted in 2020.

        spoiler

        Yes, this is a Brexit joke.

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      You can use it to create an ID to login on your Europass CV account and for applying to EU jobs.