That’s disgusting.

This is pirate on pirate violence. Blasphemy.

I checked Ghostery just this morning and user reviews claimed they sell your data as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Graphic design is my passion.

Yep. That’s pretty much the result of otherization. “Well, this group significantly different from ourselves and their issues must be thought of as a social problem”, “but that has pretty much nothing to do with my neighbour though, he’s just got a little drinking problem”.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222103120

The societal cost of a shelter stay in Vancouver is estimated at $93 per night (6), so fewer nights in shelters generated a societal cost savings of $8,277. After accounting for the cost of the cash transfer, the reduced shelter use led to societal net savings of $777 per person a year.

I glanced over the actual study yesterday. Iirc, there was a control group of 65 who were studied on top of the other 50 who received the lump sum of cash. Both groups spent roughly similar amounts of stimulants such as alcohol and other drugs, despite the group receiving financial help obviously having access to more money. I think it makes more sense to think of the homeless’ spending on stimulants as just another need they have developed due to different circumstances on their lives. Would their finances be easier to manage if they didn’t have that spending? Sure, but very, very few people are going to be capable of overcoming an addiction on the short term when they structurally live under shit circumstances. Help them reach a minimum standard of living, then it’ll be easier for them to successfully go through therapy.

TL;DR: Just give homeless people money, they tend to understand their own circumstances well enough to know how they should spend it.

Roommates aren’t exactly people you can painlessly choose not to communicate with. This isn’t about other people personally choosing to using an app on their daily life, this is them pushing OP to install spyware on their phone.