I would be stunned if this is how Google views the situation.

If they didn't view it this way then I presume they'd probably be opening themselves to litigation - in some country...

The comments here are so bizzarly positive for HN. Makes me feel that this might not be all genuine.

Check comment history for a sample of the positive commenters?

I mean, I could tell you that I too love Netlify with a passion but that would make it even more suspicious. But trust me, it's great. Try it for yourself.

I mean, if you have tried Netlify before, you will know why they are loved so much

This is just someone following Ryan Levesque's ask format for getting info on what business to build.

Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Method to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy...Create a Mass of Raving Fans...and Take Any Business to the Next Level https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1939447720/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_...

This really made me laugh. You are also totally right, we have better solutions to this problem already.

Yes this is a very good point. I asked an Uber driver in London if they put any restrictions on driving time and he confirmed that they did not. Might have to rethink that one.

In Helsinki Uber drivers ask you to sit in the front because they don't want to get stopped for operating an illegal taxi.

Really made me laugh!

Is it not quite amusingly ironic to be giving general advice that advises you to ignore general advice?

  One reason that leaders as diametrically    opposed as Obama and Trump can be aligned on surveillance is simple: The majority of Americans don’t care.

The reason why this keeps getting worse and worse.

Just for future reference, please don't quote using the four-spaces code block. It can make it difficult to read on mobile, and often requires scrolling from side to side on desktop.

Please, instead, use the `>` (meme arrow). While it does not add markup, it does make it significantly more readable. Thanks.

> `>` (meme arrow)

It's much older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_quoting

...and it looks suspiciously similar to the "diple" used by ancient Greeks: http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2015/01/30/quotati...

Oh I'm sure it is. I just called it that because it's funny.

Partially, it's also that anyone strongly opposed to surveillance realistically can't get elected to high office. If you oppose the intelligence agencies, they have access to the data necessary to ruin you by leaking that your running mate had ECT or someone similar.

I keep seeing the "platform" error issue time and time again. It has become very hard to believe this is a mistake. When I speak to the staff at these networks they basically refuse to comment.

They all stick to the script which usually goes along the line of "unfortunately we can't help with the tracking on your website, all I can say is that those user have definitely clicked".

Which sounds a lot like "yeah we tracked a click somewhere, we don't really care if it was accidental and despite having the ability to see if these people end up on your website we don't want to do that"

I have noticed that I personally click on several ads per day by accident and in fact these ads are more and more commonly being put in places where an accidental click is more likely or worse they pop up an ad and hide the close button.

You can imagine a future where our colleagues say to us "so you really believed that every click the ad network sent you was a real person because 'they said it was'. Did you never get any actual evidence? Were there no independent inspectors? Do you think that was a bit naive?"