@FireQuacker that's a very good point, a case of "following the heard", hey?

looks likely

when I see a service pushed up too much on me by ads, I refuse to be a customer

but I rarely see ads... I have Vivaldi with max blocking settings, uBlock Origin on top of it, and AdGuard as my DNS...

Then again, "The advertising industry will surpass $1 trillion in total revenue for the first time in 2024 (excluding U.S. political advertising) and grow another 7.7% in 2025 to reach $1.1 trillion."

so maybe it is all about profit

and what about a company that does not even have a product yet valued at 30 billion?

> "This company is special in that its first product will be the safe superintelligence, and it will not do anything else up until then," Sutskever told Bloomberg in June. "It will be fully insulated from the outside pressures of having to deal with a large and complicated product and having to be stuck in a competitive rat race."

I think I will create a company making a safe time machine and will not sell anything until I can deliver a time machine. As time travel is very difficult, and will be disruptive, I believe 100 trillion dollars is a good start. Or 500 trillion.

is anyone interested in be an investor? I can take USD, EUR, bitcoin, Monero, gift cards...

@ThoriumBR what a great idea! maybe when you finally do invent the time machine, you can go back in time and scam those people again!

@ThoriumBR ditto, same setup + NoScript for additional blocking

@CaffeineAddiction yeah… that’s what I get for being lazy and not bothering with ad blockers. I mean, i don’t really use prime for the streaming service anyway, more so for actual amazon itself