That request is made to the ad platform (e.g. Google/FB/Amzn) and not the 3th party who owns the ad. Even when following the link the website does not get any personal information it does not already get by you visiting their website.
You can be targeted without explicitly selling data to a third party. This is how most large advertising networks work. They don't send a dump of all user data to a third party who wants to advertise.
You can be targeted without explicitly selling data to a third party. This is how most large advertising networks work. They don't send a dump of all user data to a third party who wants to advertise.
I personally prefer having personalised ads over vanilla ones. Especially if the data is not sold but merely used to improve ads.
If possible I try to pay where possible to not have ads in the first place.
I'd like some evidence with all these conspiracy theories.
Recent battles between news corps and silicon valley have shown they are on opposite sides if anything. There is no shortage of negative press regarding silicon valley.
I'm curious to the longer term effects of companies that move hybrid setups. It would seem to me (although anecdotically) that in this setup working fully remote might hinder career growth due to visibility and being less involved in new projects and ideas. It's also easier to form a bond with colleagues f2f compared to over a VC.
While I also like the idea of choice for people on either side of the spectrum I feel being remote while part of your team/company is not puts you at a severe disadvantage. Both in the sense of being involved in new projects and ideas and visibility compared to peers.
I'm curious to see how this hybrid approach plays out in the future.
Unsure where you get your quotes but Switzerland beats UK in post tax earnings by quite a margin according to data I found. Note that Switzerland has only a 20-25% effective tax.
If you want decent money (not even NYC or Silicon Valley money which is not possible) you need to move to London at which point even 80-100k pounds (usually terminal salary for software engineers) does not give you the same savings rate or quality of life you'd get elsewhere.
The same problem can be highlighted for many expensive places in europe which is why there is such a brain drain for top talent.
Reading the comments it almost seems that folks assume passwords are shared plain text with these trackers. I don't have any issue with Lastpass having anonymized logs of how often people visit which part of the app if it leads to improvements in usability.