A lot of articles and videos are reporting on this, but so far there's very little comprehensive information about what brands don't do this.
Clearly, the 25 major brands examined by Mozilla collect a ton of data. Allegedly, BYD does so as well.
What about the Slate truck? Was that even released? What about some of the Indian brands? Surely there's some useful car being produced somewhere that's just a car?
With regards to GOG and privacy, though, it's worth noting that GOG write that they "may use Google Adwords, Doubleclick, Sizmek Versatag, Yandex.Metrica, Twitter Pixel or Facebook Pixel and other similar technologies" as well as "Google Analytics, Google Optimize, Matomo, Hotjar", and that they incorporate either the privacy or cookie or ad policy of most of these services by reference into their own cookie policy:
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000498685-Cooki...
So if they really are a privacy- and consumer-oriented company, that must be the slip-up of the century.
As far as adoption is concerned, I'm not sure it should be that big of a concern.
After all, D is supported by GCC and Clang and continually being maintained, and if updates stopped coming at some point in the future, anyone who knew a bit of C / Java / insert language here could easily port it to their language of choice.
Meanwhile, its syntax is more expressive than many other compiled languages, the library is feature-rich and fairly tidy, and for me it's been a joy to use.
Many projects have taken longer and been more stressful and had worse outcomes than needed. A lot of the work being done hasn't even been intended to deliver any business value, but to provide an opportunity for one or more people to be seen to be doing something. Actual value creation does occasionally take place as well, but more as a happy accident or a side effect than anything else. I'm very glad I'm not a major shareholder in any of these corporations.
Problems with scaling have been the biggest timewaster in my career:
1. In some large businesses I've worked in, so many people have been hired that some systems and processes have wound up being controlled by entirely different people from the people who need them. So coordination between people and waiting for people who have little to no incentive to do the thing they're being asked to takes up a large part of the working day.
2. In other businesses, a large fraction, or even a large majority of the employees have had no discernible job except to talk and write about the job performed by the few people doing an actual job. So a lot of time in these businesses would be spent dodging meeting invitations, rejecting grand ideas about revolutionizing the business with AI on the blockchain, saying no to "if you could X, that'd be great" and generally reminding people that they're not in charge.
The great thing about these problems is that you're not very likely to have them in a small startup, but if you decide to grow the organization later, you'll need to be very vigilant about how you scale.
Clearly, the 25 major brands examined by Mozilla collect a ton of data. Allegedly, BYD does so as well.
What about the Slate truck? Was that even released? What about some of the Indian brands? Surely there's some useful car being produced somewhere that's just a car?