I don’t know. It is impossible to tell how effective anything could be against Billion and Trillion-aire companies that are intent on lobbying for our data.

I think join or create any counter-movement.

If you create one - maybe merge it with a larger counter-movement or vice versa.

Privacy might be a decent place to start - https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=privacy

And unfortunately the platforms that create this and are lobbying might be most effective.

-Reddit Facebook Instagram TikTok Google

And so on

Checkout https://european-alternatives.eu/

https://www.opensourcealternative.to/

And these types of movements.

I didn’t find anything in the UK, but I found in Ireland cardnado.ie I don’t know if UK cards work in Ireland or vice versa.

We need counter movements and fast. Lobbying is happening way too quick (Please think of the children).

sudo chown root:root run.sh
[sudo] password for user:          
chown: changing ownership of 'run.sh': Operation not permitted

and the latter does nothing. Or seems not to anyway.

Results of ls -l

total 27040
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 27560272 Apr 13  2021 'Commandos 2 HD Remaster'
drwxr-xr-x 7 user user    32768 Apr 24  2021 'Commandos 2 HD Remaster_Data'
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user      200 Apr 24  2021  run.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user     2465 Mar  3  2021  uninstall.sh

This is the result for sda3 /dev/sda3 /media/user/8ACB-8EB4 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro 0 0

And the shockingly detailed data is in no way shockingly detailed. It’s my name, email, and some food I buy.

It is very much so. This article only barely scratches the surface and with AI it is going to get a lot worse

Not available here unfortunately.

Ireland. Shitty Government lets everything slide. They are about to take over the EU presidency, they are heavily lobbied by the US Big-Techs - Watch what they try to pass in regards to privacy (removing it) over the next 6 months.

I will try to see if something like that is available.

That you couldn’t give a hoot etc. shows that you don’t really understand what is happening or are very naive. Nothing wrong with that, it’s normal, but it is worth looking into a little deeper, especially stores like Tesco. When prices are already artificially higher than they should be, and they are trebling the price of some items to get people to get their cards, you should be wondering why. They are not only making money from selling the items to you, but from selling your data to others. They also use the data in many ways, probably many unethical. With that much power and money and what is going on around the world currently with lobbying etc. it is definitely something that should be looked at. You should look up personalised pricing as well as here and you might start to notice that you have paid for those trips to Alton Towers and Blackpool (probably twice over). With a few companies trialing software as we speak. New York introduced a law too.

As for the imaginary markup

Tesco

LIDL

ALDI (No discount card)

SuperValu ‘sale’ price but applicable to everyone not cardholders.

Dunnes Stores Same as above

Centra €0.59 same as above and Centra are known for being more expensive

They are also €0.49 in Londis, Gala, Daybreak and Costcutter (no online listings) and €0.59 in Mace and EuroSpar (also known for being expensive)

The list of products that it happens with is huge, you could check the same wherever you are.

Apparently it’s not done in Lidl everywhere. It’s called “Lidl Plus”.

I guess it boils down to marketing etc. So. Maybe the government shouldn’t outright ban it, but it should definitely have stricter rules. The ‘discount’ price shouldn’t be allowed to be advertised as though it is the main price - with the original price being smaller and easier to go unnoticed. But also the reason why the cards exist should be more transparent. Data collecting. The people that do not have the cards are being charged more. But the people that do have them are being monitored more easily.

That’s not a European thing, that happens everywhere in the world, I would blame your south American office branch for accepting it without checking or trying it first.

I thought that there was already an EU payment system in the pipeline, due to roll out completely in 2026? Or did I make that up… 🤔

EDIT - Wero - https://sbs-software.com/insights/wero-europe-payment-race/

I think I love Trump and his government purely because they are so blatant at corruption, they expose all of those before them and will surely make everyone question those that follow.

If not… Then I guess that’s it.

If there is an option for Americans to disrupt the republican - democrat party swap, then please, please disrupt the hell out of it in the next election.

No. Sorry. I’m very stoned now and respelling words for ages.

I don’t think the Palestinians should move. I hope that they don’t. I don’t want them to.

But Israel could’ve tried that option before committing genocide.

Israel uses money, yet again with corruption implied somewhere (I didn’t read the article).

My point is, did it ever occur to them that they could’ve paid the 80,000+ people that they murdered to peacefully and happily move, Probably for cheaper than the genocide has cost them.

Now I doubt, and I hope, that they couldn’t pay most of them enough. They definitely wouldn’t offer enough anyway.

That’s my point.

Meanwhile the rest of the world watches in the hope that the U.S. will do the right thing and get rid of him, his ilk and strip then all of everything when they get the chance.

EDITED TO ADD:

Oh yeah, and he’s a paedo.