But at least in Germany the plates always start with some letters and end in numbers. So mounting it upside down can't result in a valid plate.

Custom ("vanity") plates aren't allowed in Germany?

What is Sora?

One of many AI video generators that are filling up all video social media with rage bate garbage.

If you see a video of a cat running away from a police traffic stop

> Redesigning and rebuilding city transportation infrastructure isn't happening, look around.

The US already did it once (just in the wrong direction) by redesigning all cities to be unfriendly to humans and only navigable by cars. It should be technically possible to revert that mistake.

> maybe trusted communities like HN

Especially on this site I would be very careful with trusting any recommendations. Probably more often than not it's the product/service of the person talking about it, so basically an ad.

Thankfully at least for YouTube there's Sponsorblock to filter out that junk as well.

> legitimate advertisers

Those two words definitely don't belong together.

My local supermarket advertising on YouTube that they have a sale on coffee this week is pretty legitimate. It just doesn't buy the Alphabet shareholders a new yacht.

I truly don't believe that there is enough legitimate advertisers willing to buy ad space in Apple News (or elsewhere) to generate to profit Apple expects.

There are enough legitimate advertisers willing to buy ad space in Apple News to generate ~70% of the profit Apple expects.

Scams, you see, make more profit per customer, and thus can afford to spend more on ads per customer. This creates an upward pressure on ad prices, on top of the extra ads sold.

This is why abuse prevention at major ad platforms is so consistently lackluster. They want to stop some scams, the most obvious and and the most illegal kind, so that they can say they tried - including to regulators, and to major companies that also buy ads from them and don't want their ads next to penis enlargement pills. But actually stopping all fraud and scams could cut into their profits in a meaningful way. So there's no hurry to build better ad quality control systems, not at all. Actively staying on top of ad fraud is paying more money to make less money.

Facebook is a major example of this kind of dynamic in action. They actually had internal estimates of how much it would cut their revenue to get rid of the majority of fraud, and were silly enough to put them in the writing.

A lot of that has moved to IG, where you can just follow the stores you're interested in directly. This shift is likely another move that hurt the 'traditional' advertiser pool.

Or one AI agent tasked with optimizing the company finances.

The "EasyList – Cookie Notices" filter list for ublock origin seems to also work well on this site.