Is it not factual that trains have brake pads which wear down and cause carcenogenic micro dust? Seems I made that factual point and it was ignored in favour of criticisizing my semantics and stating obvious site rules.

Stop protecting your argument by trying to say something small doesnt matter. It all matters, regardless of size.

If the argument is that microplastics are harmful to health, surely we should be looking at all sources of them instead of just the biggest?

My argument is 'Lets try to make all vehicle tyres and brakes from something that doesnt pollute the earth and harm animal life on it.'

Yours seems to be 'Lets ignore the plastic pollution from other transport because cars cause the most, so thats all we need to worry about.'

If you are using +labels on your addresses and think you are being clever enough to spot companies that sell your data, I can tell you I have personally seen companies use code to strip these labels before selling profiled data.

It sounds like if you bought a pay-as-you-go sim card in Korea that it would immediately give you the slower unlimited connection without needing to pay for allowance first.

Bikes have tyre pollution, and trains have brake pollution. Seems like a pretty simple statement to me.

Interesting that you have moved from arguing the point into semantics now without addressing anything else. You are welcome to remove your downvotes.

People seem to get very upset when others point out that transport like bikes and trains still cause the same pollution as cars. yes it is much less, possibly orders of magnitude so, but they still cause it. Perhaps instead of getting the pitchforks out we could work together to find better wheel and brake solutions for all transpotation methods which dont cause so much toxic dust.

I never mentioned train wheels at all. Their brake pads are made from things like carbon, ceramic, and resin compounds. These wear down like any brake pads and so cause the same dust pollution. Remember that some trains in the world are over a mile long and have over 1000 wheels.

I dont see anybody claiming that bikes or trains cause anywhere near the same level as cars, but it is important to remember that they still do cause some and so they are not a silver bullet. Solutions still need advancing in order to completely remove these pollutants from human transportation systems.

Im seems using rubber/plastic compounds for tyres and brakes is always going to cause this issue on any vehicle.

Even in the recent Veritasium video about it they said that unless the chemical was heated to above ~300 degress C if will pass through the human digestive system without causing any harm.

https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY

I imagine this can be achieved with most mailboxes with a simple deny all rule and then cherry picking email addresses to whitelist.

Im pretty sure he is not a mythical being!

I have had the same work email address for 13 years. I have done lots of hardware and software purchasing in that time, and I am never shy of using my work email to sign up for things and give to account managers etc. It is used on my microsoft SSO, my Dell business account, my slack account etc etc.

After I jumped through all their hoops to opt out, I got this email from them:

"We searched our records with your email: xxx@xxxxxx but could not find any information associated to it in our databases. We will keep your email: xxx@xxxxxx in our suppression list in order not to create any data associated with your email. "

So I guess they might not be as ubiquitous in their data capture as you may have thought? Or they are straight up lying.

I think I was just getting on my high horse at the fact that the whole internet ad machine is doing this terrible thing for society and nobody really seems to care that much.

This thread was more about Linkdin specifically scraping data instead of maniuplative ads, so apologies for derailing.

How about anything on the web? HTML boon in the 90s. Wordpress and PHP frameworks in the 00's, Javascript frontend shadow doms which require hydration in the 10's, node.js and javascript on the server etc etc.

All techonologies which were not worth jumping in during the initial boom becasue it changed so rapidly and it meant relearning concepts with every new release.

Its the same with ai, some prompt which gave amazing results last year might not now, and you need to be aware of what has changed and the better way to do it now. I prefer to jump in later when things are more mature and I can learn the most stable and liked way of doing something, instead of having to relearn the same thing multiple times as it changes.

Its nothing to do with the specific house you live in, and everything to do with the activity being grouped together with all other activity you have done, which they know from fingerprinting and IP addresses.

They dont need to know where you live to have a very accurate personal and psychological profile opn you, and switching browsers is not going to help that in the slightest Im afraid.

> if they do a better job at showing me an ad that might be relevant to me, how is that disgusting?

To me that signalled that the author of the comment doesnt really care what is gonig on behind the scenes if the result is a better and more relevant ad.

I see this attitude often from people who dont seem to understand the severity and seriousness of online tracking which leads to psychological profiling which leads to manipulation.

> who then used the information to profile American voters

You seem to have missed off the most serious bit at the end. Cambridge Analytica then used the data to profile millions of voters, and purposefully target divisive and flammable political material to specific suggestible people in order to manipulate outcomes.

This same thing is done all the time by all tracking and ad companies. I think this thread has gone beyond just LinkdIn scanning your browser extensions.