On 6/10/22, jdb10987@yahoo.com <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Jun 10, 2022 3:12 PM, "Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many" <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:

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On 6/9/22, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:

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Microsoft could finally kill HDD boot drives for good https://share.newsbreak.com/192x4v8n

They are trying to switch to SSD by 2023.

Meanwhile many other systems are devoid of harddrives, such as the chromebook I think? And more importantly single board computers like the raspberry pi or A64 boards.

It boggles my mind that jim bell is sharing some kind of marketing referral shortlinks to this list.

I think it is an interesting development.

And I notice that just about every issue that potentially affects millions of people could, arguably, also be of interest to "marketeers".

So, just about anything I post could arguably be criticized on the basis that it is of interest to "marketeers". You have developed a formula that allows you to criticize me for just about anything I post, just by claiming that it is of interest to "marketeers".

I don't mean that the content has marketing value, I mean that the link you gave to it is a "shortlink" commonly used for tracking and identifying visitors, nor does it make it easy to find primary source information. The shortlink forwards to a third-party website with more ads than article content, where visitors have to click a further link to actually read the article. The first link is https://share.newsbreak.com/192x4v8n . This is a "shortened" link for quick sharing. Such forwarding links are generated separately from the article links in a way that lets newsbreak associate every visitor with the mechanism of sharing, or the person who did the sharing. Newsbreak did not even publish the article; they just made a forwarding page for it. The first link forwards to the second url: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2630738588483/microsoft-could-finally-kill-hdd-boot-drives-for-good?_f=app_share&s=a3&share_destination_id=MTY3MzQzMTItMTY1NDgyMjM4MzEyNA==&pd=018DMGUN&hl=en_US In this second URL, a user ID and referrer for newsbreak.com is given to every viewer, associated with the short link. This second url sets 8 cookies without asking the user's consent, which I believe is illegal. The first cookie it sets is called "nb_wuid" and is a session identifier for newsbreak.com that can be used to identify the same user uniquely on future visits for the next 10 years. From the headers: Set-Cookie: nb_wuid=2840bbb7-3fdd-4542-bc6d-c6cde96ec460; path=/; expires=Tue, 08 Jun 2032 07:38:43 GMT; domain=.newsbreak.com; secure This second URL behind the short link doesn't yet contain the actual article, only the first paragraph and a teaser phrase: "Microsoft could have plans to scrap its use of hard disk drives (HDD) among its main storage components on PCs running Windows 11, according to a recent report by industry analyst firm Trendfocus, as reported by Tom’s Hardware. If Microsoft goes through with its plans, consumers could begin..." . To see the entire article, one needs to click a link on newsbreak.com, that takes you to the real article on digitaltrends.com: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-could-finally-kill-hdd-boo... Why didn't you link straight to digitaltrends.com ? Meanwhile, the article on digitaltrends.com begins by introducing that it is repeating a story from a mainstream, well-recognized publisher, tomshardware.com : https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsofts-reportedly-trying-to-kill-hdd-b... Why didn't you link straight to tomshardware.com ? Anyway, I know you've been through prison, and I know it can be indescribably hard to stay cypherpunk after that, so I don't really blame you for it, but I kind of assume some mainstream effort has influenced you to use an article sharing app that lets them track more cypherpunks.