It’s absolutely true. It is a documented fact. It was discovered and entered into public record during the DOJ antitrust investigation into Google Chrome.
They call the signal „popularity“ and it is a successor of the Google Toolbar signal.
I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder».
This is why Chrome begs you to login constantly and will do it automatically when you login to Gmail through Chrome. Everything you do in the browser (bookmarks, settings, address bar) is data about you sent to Adsense. No need for cookies when you control the browser and know who is using it.
Edit: also private browsing isn’t exactly private when you’re logged in to the browser.
Chrome sends home the urls you visit together with the page performance data (and probably more). That's how they build Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) for the most popular sites: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux
Why don’t they also capture information you enter into forms on Chrome?
They control the entire browser surface, technically they can know everything, even TLS and E2E encrypted data, that they silently phone home…
If you think this is silly, consider that Microsoft Recall had been observing everything on people’s entire SCREENS and phoning home much of it. That is how a guy was caught recently: https://x.com/t3chfalcon/status/2074134314145489195
The tools in gmail in some sense "read" all your mail in order to classify spam and do things like calendar integration. The extent to which they do other things with the information is .. unclear.
I think the complaints attenuated in the last in the last 10-15 years because javascript itself became a much better language. Things really started to change with ES5. The introduction of let / const, modules, async, .?, template strings, etc. transformed it from an ugly kludge to a really capable language.
Of course, if you use old syntax you still deal with weird scoping and casting, but you don't have to any more.
Also, I think the framework churn has slowed considerably in the last 5 years.
Everybody sort of settled on React and Node, or at least on the reactive/declarative component paradigm. React was introduced over 10 years ago now, it's a dinosaur.
I played enough video games to be thoroughly steeped in legends about fox spirits from the Sinosphere, almost three years ago I felt I received an invitation that I was a little afraid of. a year and a half ago I read
and found out that people really do it. It took me about 300 days to contract with a community of foxes and started "going out as a fox". At first I didn't want to explain it to people at all but when I botched my explanation and my wife gave me some tough love about "cultural appropriation" I realized I needed a cover story and it is "I go out as a character to do street photography and make people smile"
And it became real. My son didn't believe it until he saw me work: my son saw these two college girls walking down the street and thought "there is no way they would talk to me" and next thing he knows they flagged me down and are asking me questions and I took their picture. I went to fireworks in Groton, NY and the next day in Little York [1] I haven't even parked my car and people I saw the day before are excited to see me.
When I get approached every day it becomes effortless and automatic to make an approach and when I feel like I am getting a 50% take rate I think "I am doing something wrong and I need to regroup", my usual take rate is in the 80-90% range but it feels like 100%. I don't even talk with other street photographers about it on forums because I'm drawing from an entirely different probability distribution.
Thanks to this work, it looks like I will be teaching about magic soon [2] so I was working on a short monologue about blessings on the drive up to Little York which primed me to really respond when people I photographed said simple things like "Enjoy the Fourth of July" and eating soft serve ice cream from a vendor felt like the feast that Martin Prechtel says is the only ritual -- and I am still feeling high from it just like I felt high from going to Litha put on my my pagan friend.
[2] Magic is real, full stop. Science is real too, and there is nothing more scientific than the double-blind test that accounts for the placebo effect which is as I see it: "the patient experiences the treatment as receiving a blessing and feels better" and "the doctor experiences the treatment as giving a blessing and perceives the patient differently"
It's about pH. CO2 creates carbonic acid when it dissolves in water. Your blood pH, in turn, controls how much you feel like you need to breathe. So with high CO2, your respiration rate slows down, and that can lead to low oxygen levels.
Note that the physiology and biochemistry of this is complicated (e.g. blood is a very good pH buffer and it's actively regulated by kidneys etc) and it's very much a nascent field of research, so I think AI will be overconfident and hallucination-prone.
Source: I worked in high-co2 caves for my PhD so have read about this a lot. I always carried a CO2 monitor. Our rule was to get out if we saw 20,000 ppm or greater. I spent thousands of hours above 10,000ppm.
You are right about the pH implications, but respiratory acidosis leads to hyperventilation, not hypoventilation. CO2 will kill you regardless of oxygen supply.
My medical student flatmates were talking a lot about acidosis and alcalosis :)
It was the first time that I heard about them. These basically never happen if your body and environment are halfway decent, but they are important in exceptional situations.
Pretty sure I learned the effect was the opposite (high CO2 --> slower respiration). Note that that was ~15 years ago when I would have read that. Maybe I just misunderstood, or thinking has changed.
edit: reading now I see I was wrong about this. Thanks for the correction!
I mean it feels like it was just straight written with AI: "Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line. Point-to-Point. Not shared. Not split 32 ways."
I bought a Kindle copy of Steven Baxter's novel Ring. One day, I decided to re-read it and downloaded it to a new device.
It had changed from the English edition to the German translation!
Amazon eventually admitted that this was some kind of glitch, but they were uninterested in fixing it. I got a refund, but there was no way for me to read the book.
There is actually no legally available English version of this ebook now, so if you want the ebook piracy is the only option. Presumably Amazon still has the rights to sell it, but due to a technical glitch and disinterest, they aren't.
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