The retailer already has the data in most cases, since cards are the way people pay today. There is nothing illegal about keeping a hashed record of someone's card and tracking all their purchases that way.
Loyalty programs at supermarkets don't make money from selling data (clickbait implication suggested in the story but not explained because it isn't happening). The program is a way to opt-in to the advertising and discounts, not a way to opt-out of tracking.
That isn't what cookies are for. A proper explanation is too long to post here but there are two basic kinds. The first kind identifies you as a repeat visitor to the same site. This is used to log you back in without entering your password and other such uses. These are called first party cookies.
The second type is called third party cookies and these are placed by advertisements to track you across multiple sites (though there are other ways to do that which don't require a cookie). Presumably, the site owner could recieve some share of ads placed on their site, but in practice these third party cookies are placed by login tools (Google login) and other "drop-in" content which the site owner finds valuable but might not be advertising.
In this case, neither the money from the data collected about the user, which can be sold, nor the money from the ads which are delivered on later sites that were chosen because of the user's collected are shared with the owner of the site who passes out the cookie.
This makes sense if you think of chatbots as "faster books," or books plus a TikTok algo. Every kind of BS ever written is already in the training data. No one culled out falsehoods or "bad data." Since the tool is trained to respond precisely to your prompts, the algo feeding you (truth or) BS is laser focused and highly effective.
It's one thing to not enjoy her music, to which you're entitled, but she's definitely a musician and an accomplished one whose talent is widely recognized by others. So, not generous. Accurate.
This the first I've heard that her vocal ability was called into question. Sure, we can say that of lots of popular artists, but it's surprising to hear that about this one.
Also, I've never heard it disputed that vocalists are musicians and I've studied vocal performance my entire life. In fact, musicianship and musicality are both taught as key concepts one must have to succeed as a vocal performer.
She's not the worst singer but all these manufactured pop stars have help now. Very, very overrated. None of her songs are memorable to me apart from the "Single Ladies" one.
This is the basis of web components and of all popular frameworks. In this model, the only use for a plain <div> is content that doesn't need special reusable layout or behavior. Everything cool gets promoted to a custom component.
What makes this awesome is that no future version of HTML can make your custom component stop working; it's supported down at the "bare metal" level.
I wrote an article [0] a couple years ago about how and why this came to be.
Gaming and game development are often looked down upon by other kinds of developers, which is strange when game dev is considered a dream job by so many and is highly coveted.
Inside the industry, of course, the opposite is true. Folks who aren't gamers and haven't already written and shipped a game are the ones with unattractive resumes.
It's hard to feel sorry for someone who got $250K a year without working and says they'll "probably lose their house." That's on you, bud. Not the company.
This is true of all digital cameras which have 3 separate color sensors or which take three exposures with filters on them. Even color film has 3 reactive types of color carriers. Even your eyes sense colors separately.
While it's true that astrophotographs don't look like what our eye sees, that's just a regular color photography issue.
Loyalty programs at supermarkets don't make money from selling data (clickbait implication suggested in the story but not explained because it isn't happening). The program is a way to opt-in to the advertising and discounts, not a way to opt-out of tracking.
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