@nprofile1q... is the meeting moved back to Local Burger yet? Patti mentioned it might/would soon.

So effectively if you want AI powered abilities on your own stuff then we get to see that stuff and share it with ad farms. So the price of this power from us is complete more obvious loss of privacy.

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PERSONALIZED INTRUSION

Google To Allows Ads Based on Gmail and Photos Data

Google has changed its privacy policy, allowing it to use content from Gmail, Drive, and Photos to target ads, if those services are connected to its Personal Intelligence AI feature, available in Search and Gemini.

Previously, the policy flat out stated that Google does not show personalized ads based on the content from these three services. Now, that has changed to: “We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Google Photos, unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads.”

The change in policy was made on October 16, and affects users who connect Gmail, Google Photos, or Google Drive to Personal Intelligence AI in Search or Gemini, something that Google is constantly pushing users to activate.

The policy also now says that “For example, Search may process some of the data that you allow Search to access to personalize content, including ads.”

In pizza this is true. Restaurant business in general have tight margins. In business lines subject to more innovation it is not all that true. The established business will tend to move slower on innovative ideas, especially ones that disrupt their cash cows. The internal bureaucracy is deeper.

Another is a good enough model especially with great reputation over time tends against trying something that is better in meaningful ways? Where is the incentive for the big company?

Cutting prices below costs can only be done a short time without taking damage. Raising prices beyond what is competitive invites new competitors. I think price seesaw of this kind doesn't work so well in practice for many lines of business.

What does happend I hate in more innovative business like software is big company buys the innovator for big $$$ to the team and then buries the tech or neuters it. That happens a lot.

I don't agree that government should look for and break up monopolies especially under current Anti-Trust thinking which is completely non-objective.

!Big Brother Inside, Revisited

Let’s start with the German buyer who, on September 21, picked up a used AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor and tried to play Valorant on it. The game wouldn’t start. It had run just fine on the old chip.

The buyer said that the game’s developer, Riot Games, told them through its support that the processor had been blacklisted by its anti-cheat system, Vanguard, as of August 12 – more than a month before the purchase.!

So applications like a video game are grabbing hardware identifiers and if they don't like you for some real or imagined infraction then your device can't run the game/app. Imagine this at larger scale. Government associates one or more hardware ids with you and if they don't like you or want to harass you then your computer doesn't work with any apps that play ball with them. Hell, maybe it won't even boot you OS anymore.
So how do apps get these ids? What measures can those of us that are tech savvy take to block or spoof this tyrannical shit?