Well, that is exactly what happens in the vast majority of cases, and almost certainly what's going to happen here.

That's not to undercut how shitty a practice it is, it mostly serves to discourage and dissuade people from trying to sue in the first place.

That's moderately useful for statistics purposes, but that's all. It does not mean every individual person who registers as Republican believes in Republican values and votes for Republicans. Nor is it a complete list, plenty of states don't require registration for primaries so there are lots of people who don't bother declaring either way.

As someone relatively ignorant about the mechanics of something like this, would it not make more sense that the app would be getting this data from the Android OS, with Google's knowledge and cooperation?

The place I see the most unsettling ads (that seem to be driven by overheard conversation) tends to be the google feed itself, so it seems reasonable to me that they could be using and selling that information to others as well, and merely disguising how the data were acquired.

Allowing anyone to just sell whatever chemical they come up with without first showing that it's safe would be insanely irresponsible.

"Attachment" is not the same as connection. The concept the Jedi are talking about is the Buddhist idea of attachment. It's possessiveness, codependency, fear of loss. One cannot be fully connected to anything they're attached to.

You've been misled by the Sith propaganda my friend.

Gamepass is fully usable on PC too, fyi. It's pretty well done, your saves carry over and everything.

But having that tracking shown to you has a very powerful psychological effect.

It's pretty well established that increasing penalties for crimes does next to nothing to prevent those crimes. But what does reduce crime rates is showing how people were caught for crimes, making people believe that they are less likely to 'get away with it'.

Being confronted with your own searches is an immediate reminder that the searcher is doing something illegal, and that they are not doing so unnoticed. That's wildly different than abstractly knowing that you're probably being tracked somewhere by somebody among billions of other people.

They're interrelated, and important to talk about together in this context. Sometimes it's more useful to look at what the asker is trying to accomplish than simply answering exactly what was asked.

Holy fuck what a stupid response.

Here's some recommended reading, hope it helps: https://kids.kiddle.co/Hypothesis

One published paper is never sufficient to claim anything as fact. To suggest otherwise is purely ignorance.

Since I'm sure there will be others who don't bother to read:

Nofap communities tend to have a large overlap with extremist hate communities, and are often used to spread harmful and misleading rhetoric.

There's also no observable benefit to not masturbating. The proponents portray it as some scientifically proven secret, but it's the same scam as homeopathy and Gweneth Paltrow's vagina eggs. Big, vague, impossible to disprove health claims supported by anecdote after anecdote.

Sorry, but that's horseshit.

Taking away dairy subsidies would drive up milk and milk product prices, pushing more people to buy alternatives instead. Any loss of employment in the dairy industry is balanced by new jobs in manufacturing plant milks and dairy alternatives. This isn't people being replaced by robots, it's cows being replaced by plants. You still need pretty much the same workforce to package and distribute it regardless.