When you don’t pay for the product, it’s often the case you are the product.* (*Not all the time, and you may also be the product even when you do pay.)

Perhaps no, but this still dampens my enthusiasm for their recommendations.

Can’t say that I am surprised but I will say I always felt weird about allowing Slice access to all my email just for the occasional package tracking.

When my health insurance company was breached, one of the first things they did was send our information to a credit watch company so that you could sign up for a monitoring account for free. I never signed up. I can’t be the only one who:

I am amazed that people are still surprised by shit like this.

“Already uninstalled. You don’t get too steal my private data.”

No. That system sucks too, although the 2.0 interface is better than 1.0.

Here’s a great rule of thumb to live by online - if a service is free, you aren’t the customer, you are the product. Only use free services if you are fine with that service selling everything it knows about you to anyone willing to pay them.

The “outraged” people are pretty funny though. It’s 2017 for crying out loud.

[I]t was heartbreaking to see that some of our users were upset to learn about how we monetize our free service.

The obvious question, of course, is why didn’t Lifehacker catch this as part of their vetting of the app?

How hard is it to mark something as spam?

I have to say, even though I have never used it, and loathe them as a company, I have a kind of grudging admiration for Uber’s cleverness in dreaming up new ways to fuck the rest of us over.

Reagan’s mental instability was an international joke for a long time. When I was a kid, we had a political comedy TV show in the UK called Spitting Image (so named because it was entirely performed via latex puppets of politicians and other celebrities). IIRC, at one point Reagan’s puppet had a head that would spring…

Don’t forget Nancy’s astrologer! I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but Reagan was way more intelligent than Trump. He was never this entirely incoherent- he mostly knew to shut up or say, ‘I don’t remember,’ when he got into difficulties. He also had much smarter, experienced people in his administration (even…

This. Nancy and her team could run (and basically were running) that White House at the end from what I hear. And, let me tell you, Ivanka ain’t no Nancy Reagan and Melania sure as hell isn’t.

Republicans might not have accepted it, but come on, everyone knew. He humiliated himself by recounting the plot of a WWII movie he made as his actual, personal WWII experience- he didn’t fight in WWII. He told the Israeli PM and others that he was present at the liberation of a death camp. Nancy was caught feeding…

Reagan was caught telling stories from his movies as if they had really happened. And no one did anything.

“Tear down this wall” may be Reagan’s most famous quote during his presidency, but his second most famous quote is “I think I don’t remember.” Fun times. But don’t worry! You didn’t miss anything because Trump is Reagan times a million and he’s surrounded by complete fucking idiots. We’re in for a wild ride.