That tracks.
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Are you submitting a claim?
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That website looks shady.
These class action things all look shady as hell. I had to do 30 minutes of research just to determine one wasn’t a phishing scam and I still wasn’t 100% sure. Creating a dedicated domain is such a dumb idea.
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They do look scammy but I have probably got $150 total show up in my PayPal in past year or two when filing for similar class actions. Might as well get my tiny sliver.
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I read somewhere that the total settlement was $725M and up to 87 million people are eligible. So likely for each claim to get a very small amount, or how does it actually work?
Also agree that the site looks scammy. You have to enter your email, Facebook ID, payment info, and a bunch of more stuff. Hopefully those lawyers have a way of keeping all that info secure.
Most law offices are still running Windows 95.
For a brief period a few days ago, out of the blue TikTok served me a smattering of videos of women surreptitiously exposing their naughty bits - I think the algorithm automatically blocks nudity, so people get tricky in order to slip a nip, as it were. Had not seen it before and haven’t since.
It’s linked to from legitimate news sites.
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The web-design does not instill confidence in its ability to keep people’s data safe. Looks like it’s from the early 2000s. Probably had some summer associate build it.
That’s on par with other websites I have seen for such things. They don’t spend resources on such things. Have no idea about the security. At least it is using SSL.
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Hopefully enough people will think the Web site causes/cures COVID or is a scam that they opt out so I’m one of ten people who gets PAID. God knows I’ve suffered long enough.
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If I can get a sandwich in exchange for all my data, that’s better than no sandwich.
Also, web site didn’t bother me.
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It looked exactly like my divorce lawyers site but tbf he wasn’t great
“More informed” being used a bit too generously.
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Is “informed” being used as a synonym of “aware” there? I guess one might be aware of all sorts of inaccurate shit
Just spitballing here, but maybe there are some differences between politics in France and in the US which mean that this result would not hold?
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Lately I’ve noticed unhealthy scrolling habits. My brain has learned to hunt for dopamine and it happens more often than I like. There is a lot of good content out there I enjoy, but algorithms have also been feeding in a lot of quick hit stuff that really draws me into scrolling before I realize.
Simultaneously, I’ve noticed a trend where fake/ai-generated posts grab my attention and then break the cycle; I stop scrolling when I’m reminded what I’m seeing isn’t real. And a second thought comes in now, as I scroll and see something “good” – “is that real? Probably not …”
It is fun to rip on meta for their metaverse work, and how bad it was … it’s also scary to see how quickly AI-generated content is advancing. What we’ve witnessed in the past year is incredible. … it seems natural (in today’s hellscape world) for these two things to merge, and go from “no legs” to “this is as real as real life” in the span of a decade … just seems like it depends on what your reaction is to how “real” something is, and what that will eventually mean. Obviously the experience of watching a 2x2 inch video of something so insane it has to be fake, is a real experience …
There are practical uses of social media that are now embedded in our lives … I’m downsizing and local gifting or sales groups are really useful … I don’t expect it to change or get better. That’s definitely on me. But they get me with the cat videos.
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