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Shoshana Zuboff wrote a fascinating and scary book about it … The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Absolutely worth reading. :-) Peter

Also, it would be interesting to know, if you were logged in to an account on Amazon - that way the results would be affedted on stuff yiu have previously searced for or bought …

Apart from the “sponsored” marking …. were the results the same? Peter

I’ve wondered, if you do the search in a Private window, do you get an unbiased result, which would presumably be the same, or very similar, from user to user? shalom, ncoom ncoom@...

I have seen the phrase "surveillance capitalism" used to describe this sort of thing.

This is directed at those in the US who celebrate Thanksgivings, but the well wishes is for all as we approach the various holidays. I am sending it early, since many of us will be off-line tomorrow.

No one can exactly replicate your results, because the algorithm uses your history to adjust the results. So if you want a totally unbiased results, you cannot have ever used a computer before. Or the

It is not. It is a tangent that got out of hand. Brent

So Amazon is causing more expenses for the manufacturer, the retailer, the customer, and th government, because they are lazy. Brent

Hi Bob, Now that's an interesting surprise to me. Thank you for testing and reporting. I would have thought the results to be reversed, so much appreciate you shedding light on this type of thing. All

I found this of more than passing interest. After reading a long, damning article on how Amazon manipulates their products, I thought I would see what I could learn. Using Safari, I went to Amazon.com

Speaking of which…. Apple Mac mini MU9D3LL/A Desktop Computer, Apple M4, 16 GB, 256 GB SSD, Silver $574 https://www.walmart.com/search?q=mac+m4+mini Unlike the CostCo deal, no membership is

And how is this related to New Macs On Sale?

Reading an article on how Amazon floods search results with ads, I ran across this which explains the goofy brand names there: Every single item Amazon showed us in our first page of search results

Excellent :-)

I started up using command-r and reinstalled the system, which seems so far to have been successful. The MacBook can now finish the safe mode boot up, which had previously been failing. Over the next

But Steve is on macOS 10

If you suspect macOS software corruption … the first thing I would try would be to reinstall the system. Start with option-key pressed and start from the recovery partition, if you have one. Or

I don’t think you’d experience a difference in restoring from one backup or another. Since macOS 11, the OS files are protected so wouldn’t transfer from your backup anyway.

MacBook Pro, mid 2012, non retina, macOS Mojave 10.14.6 2TB internal SSD (third party, OWC) about 1/3 full. 16 GB ram (third party, OWC) After over a decade of flawless service this MacBook is