In this specific case you can avoid Meta. In general, if you're in the US, you probably have a primary election coming up soon and certainly have a general election in November. Ask your politicians what their thoughts are on these topics and make an informed vote. Continue to pressure the incumbents as well.
Mainstream media is largely captured by the same monied interests as discussed in the reddit post. Although the poster does mention an article from Bloomberg as evidence, most of their sources are local outlets or tech-focused. https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...
I used to do banking on my (touch tone) phone before I did online banking. I still do online banking on my PC because my budget spreadsheet is on my PC, right next to my browser window.
Personally, I don't think this is about banking apps. I'm kinda surprised an article talking about ATMs and teller jobs barely mentions cash, checks & cards and doesn't mention paypal or venmo at all. I used ATMs less when it became less of a necessity to carry cash.
You don't use cash to buy things online. Even in person, outside of brick & mortars, paypal/venmo became in vogue at some point in the past. Those are banking apps in their own way.
AI is not a source. A Google search result page is not a source. Hopefully, these things help you find a source. If you're posting something you feel the need to source, post the source along with your comment! For example, don't say "according to a Google search, x"... say something like "according to Microsoft's documentation, x" and provide a link to Microsoft Learn page...
Pre, post and during COVID, you rarely see someone pulled over for running a red because you rarely see it happen. When you do, a cop it is even more rare to be present. These rare events stick out, yes.
Depending on the situation, it might be dangerous for a cop to also run a red to give chase, so consider it might be their job to let it go.
I don’t know if Underwood are astroturfing, maybe they are, but this is one of the few stories where this coverage could be entirely organic.
There are a few competing products on my supermarket's shelf (FWIW, Underwood's is not among them), but only Underwood's gets mentioned in the post. Where there's smoke, there's fire.
You can't buy it through Amazon or Costco or HEB (their main outlets, apparently) at the moment, and there's a rumor that they've gone out of business.
They started making the hot sauce years after the main events referred to in the lawsuit.
Their socials are silent and the website is a godaddy landing page with just their logo.
I don't think these people are savvy submarine astroturfers.
If they did go out of business it's a shame, I buy their sauce by the boxful every year or so. It is legitimately better quality. Chili garlic sauce and sambal are also great.
I promise you I am not on the Underwood payroll, but it is definitely one of the better Sriracha alternatives. That it gives you a feel-good of supporting a sort-of-underdog, of course people are going to be drawn to it.
I think you are underestimating the love of the original Sriracha.
Counterpoint: fighting for consumer protections is a fight worth not avoiding. Interacting with some of these systems is simply unavoidable (think payment systems, health care portals, email, etc.) & larger corporations already enjoy a huge power imbalance in this relationship. We will just get run over further if we hide from it.
Maybe not war, per se, but still relevant to this topic, around this time, there was a famous AT&T whistle blower (Mark Klein) who described the company's role in domestic surveillance by the NSA.
Maybe companies are more open about it today, but it is hard to make such a wide assertion.
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