Their API documentation being a shit show is an understatement. Nothing is consistent, or complete in the documentation. The forums are a better way to determine what is and isn’t available based on people poking and prodding to actually figure out how the API works.

IMO, Lina Khan was maybe the best appointment of the Biden presidency and as FTC chair, pushed hard for consumers, even for unlikely winnable battles. Unfortunately the click-to-cancel ^[1] rule was struck down by the Court of Appeals, but I think if she were still in that position she’d fight the ruling. You’re right that the legislature needs to do their job and formally outlaw these practices, rather than having this be brought up by the FTC and struck down on a procedural matter.

What info are y’all giving away when signing up for a gym membership where it could even go to collections? Is this for an annual contract? If you’re not on a contract and rack up unpaid months, it seems unlikely to me. Especially for a physical business where a late payment of $20 would deny you entry until you pay. I guess states with poor consumer protection laws this can happen if you sign up for a year or more and don’t pay I guess?

Sorry to say but you got scammed. They could have tried to take you to small claims court, but the burden is on them not you. The credit card company sided with you, if they have a problem, then can take it up with Visa or whoever, not you.

Why would you take a credit hit. It seems like once a year, something random comes up in a credit card statement, and requires a dispute. Those aren’t sent to credit agencies AFAIK, although i’ve never been ruled against any, so I’m not 100% about this.

This is one of the most sensible comments in the thread. The law is the problem. This is something which should have been self regulated by websites themselves, but Meta lobbied for laws like this so they wouldn’t have to police it. The law making this mandatory for everyone when this should be a parental control is the issue.

IMO the benefit and curse is you could fork it, maintain it, patch it yourself, etc if you wanted, but then its a full time job keeping it up to date with changes. As others have pointed out, this is a decisive change, so a fork probably wouldn’t be a solo project, but the bifurcation in development would be a large impact, slowing development in other fixes and features.

On three separate occasions over the course of many years, I ran into an issue and searched Stack Overflow for anyone else having the same problem. The approved answer was exactly what I needed, and went to go hit the upvote button, only to realize I can’t upvote it because I was the author of the answer.

Agreed, but without showing it, it would be extremely confusing to the audience. After watching the extended scene, it would have been really bad if they left that all in. Plus the scene is funny with the eddie van halen tape, and also uses the contents of Doc’s luggage with the hair dryer for another gag.

I watched the broadcast TV show leading up to the movie, and the behind the scene of how they pulled off Museum Heist was one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait to watch the movie.

FWIW, Brave still supports manifest v2 and the full version of uBlock Origin. Chrome has uBO Lite since they only have manifest v3 now. Firefox and LibreWolf don’t have to deal with this, and still support the real uBlock Origin. I’m not sure what exactly Brave “shield” is doing, but I think if you use EFF’s privacy badger on Firefox and block third party cookies, you are getting the same thing.

ok

This is how the scene was in the final cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHZctSnNrsw

So that means everyone is either bi or ace?

It’s probably more likely that straight people don’t even exist. Everyone is a little bit gay.

But as an American we’re free to decide which tax company is going to take our money, and also free to not have an accounting degree and mess up some math and then get audited. You can’t put a price on freedom. /s

You would think that’d be the case… The tax system doesn’t include the filing cost, private companies charge the fees and lobby the IRS to intentionally not make the process simple and free for Americans.

Further reading: https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap

Amazing, yeah, that’s my hesitation with switching and investing time, to get charged at the checkout.

Was it really $15.99 or is the marketing page hiding hidden costs for some situations (assuming you don’t need support or audit defense).