At least one news website threatened to shut my (expensive) paid account because I was using a "generic" email address, and as such, was likely sharing my credentials.

They insisted I change the email to myname@myname.tld, which was enough in their books to prevent credential sharing.

Square acquired Credit Karma's Tax business, probably folding it into CashApp

[1] https://squareup.com/us/en/press/credit-karma-tax

[2] https://www.pymnts.com/news/partnerships-acquisitions/2020/c...

You should be able to block those elements with uBlockOrigin or similar browser extensions. I blocked a bunch of the "trending" stuff since it never really contributed positively to my site experience.

The other comments provided a great overview, but I would really recommend read ProPublica's reporting about them [1]

Some very brief highlights:

- They use dark patterns and other trickery to prevent people from filing for free (the vast majority of Americans can file for free via IRS free-file), instead directing them to the "free" up-sell laden product

- Lobbying against literally anything that would make filing taxes easier or cheaper. It doesn't have to be this way (and it's not in many countries), but it's how they make their money.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap

But they also have to live without an office and may not have meaningful stakes to make the tradeoff worth it for most.

Presumably this was an office job? It might be a little different with a warehouse job that has very productivity targets set from above.

Yes. No disagreement there.

However, I used to do some other work where I was on longer but thought less. In this other job I'd put headsets on and just listen to podcasts and music while working, and when I was done, I was DONE. Any problems were someone elses to deal with.

One problem I have with office work is that it can be hard to leave "at the office" when you are behind. People expect problems to be solved, and if you don't solve them they wait for you the next morning. This has really impacted me badly at times (trouble sleeping etc).

My dream scenario - 4x10 and then somehow have no risk of stuff hanging over me to get done the next week!

I don't know if this is a recent trend, or if I've only experienced negative things in the past year or two, (perhaps in the lead up to their IPO?), but I ended up switching away from them.

They closed my account because they suspected commercial use. If I wanted to re-open it, I would need to send in a picture of my ID, and sign some legal documents attesting to my continued non-commercial use or something.

They might not care about personal users because we don't pay, but I did end up switching to different software for the commercial projects I use remote access software on.

You have any recommendations? I'm thinking of switching as well.

AnyDesk is really good.

The whole presentation I was wondering how much Verizon paid as well.

Between the pricing reveal and the conflation of their 28GHz deployment as a standard 5G experience, it seemed like it was the iPhone sponsored by Verizon.

I wonder if that means we'll start seeing iPhones with carrier branding.

Like the whole AT&T "5Ge" thing that Apple gave in on? :(

The carrier contracts likely don’t give any leeway on that. They just provide the image and Apple has to show it.

Contracts never stopped Steve Jobs from doing what he thought was right for his customers.

I know he was sad to see his TV/Movies/VOD plans fall through and eventually the 'meh' Apple TV concept was born.

They most certainly did - like having Maps go out half-baked because they couldn't get a contract for what they wanted.

Is Spotify on Airplay 1 still?

It is.

With Amazon I do like that I talk to real people, but half the time they try to give me money instead of actually trying to solve the problem.

It's great that chat is empowered to send $5 or $10, but oftentimes I just want to have my problem solved.