Yeah ofc, it’s another way of funding a company and the investors want their return on investment as well. Our savings, pensions, index funds etc are also investing in these publicly traded companies and we also want whatever roi we can get.

Governments just need to do their fucking job to prevent ani consumerism. But considering there are still a lot of people defending stupid rules and regulations (especially about anti consumer practises in the US) I doubt it will change anytime soon.

It’s calles the Gulf of Mexico, people should stop using different names in different languages and use the actual name.

Like The Netherlands is called The Netherlands and two of it’s provinces are called Holland

That depends on the business culture and how good their advisors are. And also the size if the business matter.

But yeah generally angelosaxton companies who have a mangement structure that’s way more in depth than it needs to be fuck these things over

Or you can setup RSSFeeds direcrly and also include news articles and other stuff

Sadly I still see that ads benefit a lot of my clients. The more advertising they do the more revenue they get, but this is only for small to medium sized companies. However if every company in the world spends 100k on adverts on platforms like Google we would easily surpass the 10b.

Dropshippers are the best example of this. No ads means no revenue.

Dutch is way worse than English regarding inconsistencies it’s not even funny.

Sadly Dutch is adapting to make some thing “proper” Dutch which where never proper Dutch and sound wrong to every native Dutch speaker. Like “groter als jij” instead of “groter dan jij”.

Iirc Proton has been audited for security and for privacy as well.

We have systems in place to help with it

There should be a difference between using Whatsapp while in a county with good privacy laws (like one of the EU member) or one without.

As far as I know Meta only collects and abuses data it get’s from people where there are now laws in place to prevent it (so why wouldn’t they do it).

We should normalise the audits on security and privacy that are done by proper accountants. It doesn’t help that a lot of people call bookkeepers accountants which isn’t correct, but a signature from an accountant (CPA/AA/RA or whatever) should have some impact to prove the services are secure or private.

I have had a lot of issues setting up Firefly III on different systems so I never got to get it working.

Eventueel I ended upfinding Actual Budget, while not perfect it works really well and I have been using it for more than a year now

Just because you can (pretty easily) self host it doesn’t mean that the privacy concerns aren’t valid.

Cause people fail to awknowledge there is more to politics than just left and right, or progressive and conservative, etc.

Actual Budget a selfhosting budget software. It helps me keep track of my finances