Truth is CEOs do dumb shit all the time because most of them are not the "genius" worth all that pay everyone seems to think.
Of course there are many that are worth the pallets of cash they make but it drives all the mid tier to junk CEO compensation up.
It's everything from redpill misogynists to people who just support men's rights and saying we should should direct resources to prevent male suicides is the exact same thing as saying women are property and deserve no rights or autonomy and there is no middle ground.
It is important to understand what people are saying about this because when you hear someone say something that seems reasonable and correct but suddenly they show their extremist stance but then you dismiss that part because you don't realize what they are saying.
This is how all extremist groups get people on their side from Isis to Jordan Peterson to far right politics.
The company doesn't get to tax write off other peoples donations.
You can monitor your site traffic during the ad campaign and see if it goes up by a reasonable rate per impression though?
Sure I suppose they could lie and you happen to have such a well crafted ad that it has a super high click rate and you are getting scammed but I think that is highly unlikely. Especially depending on your target it would be easy to check.
Because you have your own logs to compare if traffic increases or not?
Reddit was it but not anymore
Because that doesn't kill the competition.
I have been so spoiled by my 3pa I can't even look at the old.wasit.com I just see
Ad Post Post Ad Post Post Post Ad Next page.
Idk how people put up with that.
Maybe, but having a sense of community maked a big difference in keeping people engaged when communities are small and need to grow. There are certainly plenty of spaces that should be kept clean and on topic but if everything is always dry and boring you will have limited engagement and limited repeats.
When a lurker knows how to "newfags can't triforce"
Or respond to "Red Leader standing by."
Then they see positive feedback from the community they feel like they are part of the community vs an observer and tribalism is one of the strongest features/bugs of humanity.
This also helps keep discussions civil when you can realize the person you have having a disagreement with regarding "tensor wave field dynamics in corn flakes" isn't just a raging dick because they used the "specific gravity of skim milk instead of whole milk like you were."
Edit: make to makes and mile to milk
Opt out, we already have robots.txt for this and would work just as well as any legislation.
You will never be able to tell if bad actors are violating your ToS or the law unless they keep raw data stored for inspection.
Even if AIPrime respects your wishes and doesn't scrape your site I potentially have the ability to feed it anything I have access to. I won't claim to have the largest data library on earth but I have been data hoarding since the mid 90s and would gladly share it with a company I feel is aligned with my beliefs.
I don't know why we should be surprised. This is just natural progression and even if they don't explicitly send it out to a specific location on its own eventually it will find and consume the information in one way or another unless it is kept in an isolated box. There is absolutely no legislation that will fix/stop this unless 100% of all people capable of creating these will respect such a decision and being the odd groups out will severely hamper their future.
Wait you get lunch breaks?