The overall data flow works the same, but Google has its own ad network, Google Ads.

Analytics showcases to any webmaster what are Google’s data gathering capabilities, Trends showcases comparative segmenting capabilities, while Ads, GA360, and Google Cloud, are what they try to sell.

Google doesn’t publish website statistics, because they don’t want to sell a tool that would enable website owners to shop around for different ad networks.

The intermediary companies also want to attract clients, whom to sell more detailed data. It isn’t unusual for them to release basic data like total number of users per domain, for free. For further segmentation, like interests, keywords, geolocation, client’s system properties, etc. they do require subscribing.

I’m not speculating, I’ve had a chance to work at server maintenance (where basic data comes from), website design and maintenance (where 3rd part user trackers go), and both offering ad space and contracting ad services (dealing with these companies, ad networks, and website owners).

You asked where do they get the data from… well, that’s the answer 🤷

The numbers could be fictitious (you didn’t ask whether they get “reliable data”), or they could be doctoring them themselves… but there is a number of companies whose work is to let sites put trackers that gather user data, so they can in turn use it as a point when luring advertisers.

It isn’t “highly guarded confidential” information, websites would happily submit their access logs if that could make them look more appealing to advertisers… but they don’t, because: a) they could be sending fake data, which would make the aggregating company lose face, meaning they won’t accept self-reported data, and b) site logs contain a lot of users’ personal information, sharing which could fall afoul of privacy legislation.

They may still have to pay for access to parse that data, or extract it from the data made publicly available (…which could still be doctored, but 🤷)

Curate your feed, report+block does wonders on Facebook.

You can see the source of the data in the table:

https://therighting.com/traffic-reports/news-websites-endure-traffic-tailspin-in-may/

They publish monthly traffic reports:

https://therighting.com/traffic-reports/

mainstream news websites based on Comscore data

https://www.comscore.com/

…whether you trust their methodology, is a separate matter.

In a country with [checks notes] a:

“Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives”

Let’s reflect for a moment on what it means to bunch all those things together.

Last time SWIM used a patcher, it came with a malware dropper. Is that still how this “free” works?

On Android, most apps depend on the keyboard.

• Gboard has a configurable suggestions bar where you can pick words, or not.
• Microsoft SwiftKey works similarly, but it underlines the word you’re typing.
• AnySoftKeyboard works like Swiftkey.

Only exception I’ve seen, is Copilot, which shows the suggested word directly, to be selected with [tab], but you can still type a different one.

I’ve noticed no such behavior on Facebook. Have you checked your keyboard settings?

I wish people could break free to pursue interests of their own, preserve their ethnicity but kick the ass of anyone who’s using religion as a leash to yank them…

But indoctrination is strong in these ones, I’m afraid it’s going to take a lot of bloodshed before next generations realize how manipulated they’ve been.

Both Palestinians and Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews, have spent decades treating their women like baby farms in a population race to get the “moral high ground” to wipe out each other.

It’s highly unfortunate for the resulting cattle individuals, and the people responsible for it should be particularly condemned… but it’s hard to care about intentionally raised cannon fodder (no, I’m not vegan).

We don’t have any evidence

Meanwhile:

Israel purchases 40,000 tents for Rafah evacuation

In a normal world

I think you mean in a “sane” or “reasonable” world; we do, by definition, live in a “normal” world…

It’s called: rhetoric

Many books have been written about it in the last 3000 years, since Ancient Greece.

The reporter tries to bring down the discussion to a sentiment-based shouting match (also part of rhetoric, called “trolling” in recent times), while Bernie answers by shouting over her points (“I can shout as loud as you”), then goes back to a clear delivery of his own points.

When one party has no solid arguments, while the other does, it’s the dynamic that comes out:

• one side tries to confuse the listener
• the other tries to transmit summarized arguments

Business/politics as usual, really.

different projects that will combat food insecurities

True, the article mentions:

It will provide for a public awareness campaign by the Harlem Globetrotters in partnership with charity KABOOM!, which will also build at least 30 playgrounds over the next three years in communities with less access to play areas. The National Collegiate Athletic Association will also renovate 15 courts by 2030.

How will that make people more secure about food?

As of 2022, around 17 million households experienced food insecurity nationwide, and more than 44 million people across the U.S. faced hunger

give $3.5 million to Chicago-based charity Bigger Table to deliver 10 million nutritional meals to food banks in the Midwest by 2030

9 million pounds of fresh fruit, vegetables and protein to families in need.

So… is that like 1 meal per person from now until 2030, or less?

They’d better use the money to buy rice: $9.7 billion, over 8 years, for 17 million households… is about $70/year per household. Looking up Walmart prices, that’s 300lb of rice per year, or about 1lb of rice per day, or 1500kcal, which is what a single 4-8 year old needs. Still not much, but slightly better than a single meal for 8 years.

Technically, a human ovum is 0.12mm in diameter… I have a 3D printer nozzle with a 0.10mm pitch, and it’s still visible to the naked eye (from up close), just slightly smaller than a 0201 SMD resistor.

Whoops, you’re right, wrong party.

Who’s Biden running against in the primaries, is there a single strong opponent?

Not sure whether bullshit, ignorant, or traitor.

If the US were not to come to the aid of a NATO member’s invocation of Article 5, don’t expect many NATO members to come to the aid of the US when Russian missiles start flying around the North Pole.

And… didn’t Russia already say that the sale of Alaska was illegal, and they want it back? Anyone else get some Crimea vibes?

If Biden got re-elected, and then became incapacitated to fulfill his duties, wouldn’t that make the vice-president take his place?

I mean, Kamala Harris doesn’t seem that bad of a choice for president, and neither does Nikki Haley if Biden decided to run with her for the presidentials.

Nah, weasels are immune… now, as for dinosaurs, there is a reason why COVID is related to the avian flu, and Trump got it. 🙈