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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Glassdoor is not reliable. Companies can pay to suppress negative comments.

    Are there trusted impartial review sites?

    They exist, but are very few - their articles get stolen by unscrupulous copycats, or the AI slop buries them in noise. It’s like panning for gold, but instead of a bubbling creek it’s sewage runoff. I hardly ever find trustworthy results on the first page any more, you got to go several pages deep until you stop seeing the “Top N <search term> you absolutely need to buy!” results.











  • If they control the browser they can potentially intercept everything you see and do. Banking info, whether you looked up Tianmen square, who you talk to, who you trust… They can also infer personality from your browsing history. Looked at clown outfits just before watching porn? Maybe you’ll get a letter blackmailing you or else they’ll divulge your fetish to your family and loved ones. This is not fiction - China has been caught doing this to political personalities, and those are only the ones that failed.

    The browser can also serve as a gateway for them to install persistent monitoring software on your OS, or turning your machine into part of a botnet.