Will they be fined? (Probably not)

Will Danes be compensated for the hassle, this causes them? (Probably not)

Will Danes be hassled with GDPR-compliance in every business, school etc. even though the state can't keep records safe? (Probably yes)

Run in sandbox, container, or VM?

I like a sandbox, but there's arguments for all three. Jai is still my favorite on Linux.

Target platform must be updated every year now in August. They started doing this a couple years ago.

Unfortunately, DDG's spam filters are basically useless. I used DDG for many years without !g as well and recently, the first page contains mostly AI generated garbage blogs. Not for every search query, but for example for everything related around the house or garden.

I've had similar issues, but found the situation in some niche topics improved after I used Add Feedback -> AI-generated a bunch.

Hold on. I had given up on Google almost 10 years ago, and I thought that the AI garbage on DDG was the new norm on the web. At least Google doesn't fare any better. You make it sound like there's another option?

At risk of looking like a shill: Kagi.

Partly, i find it reassuring to pay for the service with money. That was how we used to do things back in my day.

Localisation is moderate for shopping - i have to sift through US results. I'll occasionally use Google product search when i'm metaphorically groping for my wedding ring in the toilet.

It's not as good as Google used to be, but then, the web isn't a good as the web used to be.

In some way, a "file" dates back thousands of years when ancient civilizations wrote ownership and debt and whatnot on clay slates. Then hundreds of years of paper records. It’ll probably stick around for quite some time.

I don’t see them. Greetings from the EU.

Also greetings from the EU. I recently saw in the settings:

- Ads for Apple Care

- Ads for Apple Fitness+

- Ads for iCloud stuff.

But only once? They can be dismissed, no?

You gotta provide some sources for your Twitter bro science take.

The EU is big enough to have several geographically independent data centers. without leaving the sovereign territory.

What did you do with all the Google Play Credits?

When you "spend" Google Play Credits in an app, Google Play treats those credits the same as if you paid with real money: they took 30% (their take isn't so steep today), I took 10%, and then I sent the user/buyer the remaining 60% directly from my bank account (I used Dwolla back then).

It was risky because I didn't actually receive any money from Google until about a month later.

What you did was money laundering. And big chance for getting in trouble if let’s say ton of credits come from fraud/stolen and then google pays out to you and then crawl back once they realize is fraud.

I’m curious how you didn’t get into money laundering problems.

Technically it was an unregulated money transference service without KYC. The user that stole the cards from the bookstore was the one doing the money laundering part. I just enabled it (which is probably worse, legally).

I was investigated and cooperated fully.

Edit: I just remembered, the bank I used for the transference did do KYC for all users who were sent funds. This makes it more like "money dirtying", since the account is tied directly to a real identity.

Thanks for your detailed answer. Could you tell me what other things you had to deal with? Any prison, bad credit, fees, lawyer fees ?

This is not laundering, it is in fact exactly as the service was meant to be used. As long as you save where the money comes from and where it goes you are at worst operating a discount pseudo-bank. But that's what google is also doing, so we can infer that this is okay.

What's the chance that either one of the four bodies crash into another?