It’s so they can print the tracking dots.
Because there is precedent.
That’s light novels for you.
When your (physical) book is on the shelf amongst a sea of competition at a store, the title is about the only thing that serves as any form of advertisement. So they tend to be VERY verbose.
Asm is compiled too.
Gotta bust out the hex editor.
I work for a major data aggregator of public records, which uses a lot of the same techniques the these ad places use to profile people.
You would be astounded by the sheer amount of information we have on individual people from addresses, hard pii such as criminal and finance records and your ssn if in the USA, who your neighbors and family are, your assets such as housing/vehicles etc, and even your individual devices like your phone.
The problem in the states is that many of the local grocery stores went out of business when wally world rolled into town.
I don’t get why everyone espouses ddg but shits on bing when bing is the underlying source.
I have been price matching what I can with brick and mortar stores, against the online ones.
TBH I have started to trust shipping less and less for expensive electronics and would rather do a pick up when able anyway. No damaged goods or porch pirates that way.
infinite scroll
Depends on the client you are using.
For phone or tablets try using the Voyager native app.
For browser try m.lemmy.world which is just the web version of Voyager.
There are other clients like old.lemmy.world for that “authentic” feel.
The guy really exudes “don’t you know who I am?” energy. Which is a shame since it detracts from the discussion.
The date is given on the page, which hasn’t lapsed yet.