They offer "spying" services for your big data. Essentially something like Facebook and Google but without selling ads, instead spotting patterns that seem interesting for whatever reason.
Payment ecosystem is so complex and convoluted that it is hard to tell. I was using my Visa card for years on Steam and all of a sudden Steam started refusing it. Steam support was repeatedly telling me that the problem is not on their end but on my end. At the end I figured out that I need to enable Visa 3D Secure feature on my credit card because I assume Visa was seeing a lot of fraud from Steam so they started requiring 2FA for Steam payments.
Also Bandcamp.com refused to accept the payment from my credit card and I contacted my bank and they told me that payments to Bandcamp are always blocked because of security reasons(that is their policy) and they had to manually approve my credit card for use on Bandcamp....which is totally fu*king crazy. Manually approving payment transactions in the 21st century is wrong. How the hell should I know which vendors are on my bank's blacklist?!
Tbh or at least that's my impression all comes down to the problem of fraud and crime. That's why we still have shitty payment providers and processors.
Cryptocurrency like Bitcoin can probably be made by LLM so if you have a good idea for cryptocurrency or some crypto token and you can vibe code it with LLM, perhaps it can reach a $1bn market cap.
Ironically enough rampant piracy turned out to be the best method for preserving history because that way thousands of people have x or y thing on their hard drive stored and preserved in decentralized fashion. One way centralized archiving is fragile.
I don't understand why somebody didn't fork the Wikipedia and build the version where you can self promote. It kinda sucks that you are not allowed to claim and edit your Wikipedia page.
There's this wiki (I forget the link sorry) that always gave me the impression that it was made by people disgruntled they were turned away from wikipedia for original research, that's full of original research by self-styled experts. I'm sure you could write an article on yourself there, after all who's more an expert in yourself than you?
My idea was to have Wikipedia like platform where you could write about yourself and then have your friends, family and colleagues confirm that information or vouch for that. You can even turn things around and give permission to your friends, family and colleagues to write and maintain Wiki page about you.
I don't use LinkedIn but when I stumble upon someone's page, I often see testimonies from their work colleagues about them.
I doubt Google and Facebook are any better but the catch and the question is; how to measure awareness of ads e.g. if I see an ad and it sticks in my mind but that doesn't show up in advertiser's ad campaign analytics? Raw stats are one thing but awareness is another.
Yahoo wanted to be internet's hotspot for everything....ironically enough Google become that despite the fact that they rose to power because of their minimalism and search focus.
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