I can’t figure out who actually thought any of this was a good idea other than marketing people and idiots who never planned to attend any of it. It’s phenomenally punitive to fans.

Short of having a private jet, who is going to more than 2 or 3 games? Who is honestly expected to just scamper around a region of a whole continent, then criss-cross a whole continent, to support their country other than people paid to by their country’s Ministry of Sport or something similar to attend every game? People who follow sports teams around the US during a season of anything are an infinitely tiny group.

Like a team outside of your small Group stage? Fuck you, the games are 4000km apart. Instead of enjoying games for the game itself, you can only be a nationalist.

If the winner of Group H gets to the final (lol) they will have gone from playing a territory spanning Atlanta to Jalisco, then literally bouncing back and forth between the West Coast and Texas until heading to NJ. They might have flown enough miles to circle the globe by the time they’re done.

What city will see even a notably economic benefit from what amounts to 6 weeks of highly compressed MLS setup? The only thing that’s concentrated here is taking expensive flights. Everything else is diluted to the point of being worthless.

This whole Cup should be considered a human rights abuse, by all accounts.

You, maybe.

Subscribe to a privacy community and let the good times roll blocking all tracking of you online.

Degoogle your life. Leave meta platforms wherever possible.

Starve them of the data they want.

People that try to run scams often fall under the same profile as people that steal for the thrill of it. It’s all about pulling one over on someone else, and the bonus is you get money out of the effort.

Trump gets paid a living wage, yet he still scams everyone on Earth. So right there your theory falls apart.

Is there a Kalshi bet about how long before a false flag thing happens in Germany?

Xenophobic attacks against people from outside the region of southern Africa happen in RSA happen every few years. Typically it’s Nigerians that face the brunt of it.

Nigerian news listicle of 10 worst South African xenophobic attacks, ranging from 1998 to 2019: https://punchng.com/xenophobia-south-africas-10-worst-attacks-ever/

It’s not, it’s an add-on for shifting liability after the fact. Basically, if a site gets dinged as being part of showing some youth something truly evil, like confirming the existence of LGTBQI+ people on earth, then if the youth used a VPN, somehow the site is to blame. And likely fines come into play.

It’s like if a person that’s 19 buys alcohol with a fake ID in Utah - the liability is still on the place that unknowingly sold the liquor. It’s probably based on the same lack of logic.

This is straight up misinformation. First off, it’s perfectly legal.

LinkedIn does browser fingerprinting. It’s the same thing Google and Meta do. It’s how Google Ads is shifting to a post-adblocker revenue stream.

Browser fingerprints show fonts used, audio codecs, WebGL render data, processor, operating system - enough that if you add up several factors together, it makes a statistically unique fingerprint. it does NOT scan applications on your computer. It can’t. It DOES scan which browser extensions you have running (if they affect page loading).

If you check your email and then close that and go to Google in an incognito window and search for porn - Google will fucking know what you’re looking at. Gmail and all Google apps all fingerprint, and then you’ll notice how Google ads trackers are on most sites online? Yep. That’s how they track you.

Use a VPN? Use an ad blocker? Great - Google doesn’t care. Google can track your fingerprint.

See your own fingerprint - check how it know it’s you visit after visit.

https://fingerprint.com/

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

https://amiunique.org/