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I always make sure I have a consistent amount of cash in my wallet. Makes it easier to feel confident I can make all but the largest purchases in cash. Also happy cake day!

That doesn’t matter. It costs money for companies to place adds with Google. That money goes directly to them regardless of whether or not you make a purchase. They then make use of their vast data resources to target people with said ads, which may not affect you, but definitely pushes products (some business people have described a 3x on investment with Google and Facebook ads).

Because Google ads are on nearly every website, and because Google owns such a large bevy of services including search, YouTube, Gmail, and maps, they can collect all of this data into a scarily accurate profile of your behavior, interests, and beliefs. Data that is shared with their partners and ends up all over the internet.

Your personal data and your attention (advertisements). Those two things are the cornerstone of how big tech makes their money

One of the unfortunate realities of operating a sensitive service like email is that you have to cooperate with valid government requests or risk getting fined, or worse, banned from the country. The good thing is that end to end encryption restricts the information they have to turnover about your messages, but this is vulnerability of pretty much any service. Your email provider will not go to jail for you.

I do find the IP blacklisting a little ironic considering they run a VPN, but that’s not much of a surprise either considering their freemium business model. I don’t see how either of these practices would link them to Israel, but it’s fair if you’re uncomfortable with them. I think you’d be hard pressed to find services that don’t also do these things, though. What do you use for email?

What makes you think that?

I’ve found ProtonMail to be pretty nice. Easy to import your mail into too. YouTube has been hard though. PeerTube is cool but rather small (feel free to ask my any questions about it though). Ideally we’d be using stuff like Nebula and Patreon to support creators directly, but you can at the very least use a fronted to minimize contact with Google.

I would’ve been wetting myself out of fear. Coolest job ever

I wonder how the ability for bicarbonate to act as carbon capture is impacted by ocean acidification though

I don’t really have anything off the top of my head except Lycanites (though I personally find it annoying). Still you could mine RLCraft and Gregtech New Horizons or other mod packs and see if they have mob mods you like