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@: Those on what you call hgher incomes are being fleeced every month for taxes. Where is the incentive when the govenrment takes most of what you earn?
@: the one payment not listed above in the social welfare increases is the jobseekers! I have no issue with increases to those who have a disability, carers, working family payment etc. V interested to see the new Jobseekers structure as it would appear that working for a period would prove to be much more lucrative than being on the basic jobseeker payment.
You blame people who do not contribute as you put it. Vast majority of those on social welfare have contributed to the system. People may be between jobs or out on sick leave. Perhaps it’s the politicians who sprout People who get up early in the morning must be looked after and yet fail to even consider them. There will always be a section of society that will abuse the system . On the other side the same politicians gave the banks a 20 year dispensation from paying corporation tax. The same banks the taxpayers money bailed out and then the same taxpayers were forced through austerity to repay for the gangsterism of the banks and developers facilated by the same politicians.
@: The government that takes most of what you earn and gives it out to those who are not bothered their a%s£ to earn. Sick of the lazy society getting looked after all the time.
@Donal Desmond: Don’t fool yourself Donal. The vast amount of people on social welfare, haven’t contributed in a very long time. They’ve taken more than they’ve given.
I’ve no empirical evidence for that statement. There … it’s annoying when somebody makes a statement without any foundation, isn’t it?
@xmasbride: Unless you’ve paid or pay a form of income and PRSI, you don’t contribute anything.
If you live on welfare you whole live, you receive state money and give some back in VAT and other taxes.
Since you never “earned” the money thru labour, you’re not contributing anything.
@: Those who earn between 27k and 39k pay between 1/12th and 1/8th of their income in tax. Not to put too fine a point on it, but they have already received very significant tax cuts.
We should be aggressively lowering marginal taxes rates across the board, to encourage more people to work and attract the key skills we need.
I’m on 62k,I’m a single father,pay for my son,pay my mortgage, health insurance,life insurance,my pension contribution,everything while on the higher tax,I’m entitled to nothing,when I was on 40k,I had more money,I happily pay my tax so pensioners and anyone on welfare get looked after, people that lose their jobs,there is a tiny minority that milk the system and of course that’s annoying but for you to say I’m well off cause I’m on more than 39k, shows you haven’t a clue
@Daniel Roche: you may not get “as much” as some people but you do get child benefit along with a bonus payment this year and 3 electricity credits totalling 450 euro. As a single person with no kids and on significantly less than your income I will not get as much in this budget.
@Gearoid MacEachaidh: No I don’t get child benefit,yes the same electricity credit that everyone is getting,so we are getting the same,nice try,try again.
@Daniel Roche: why don’t you get child benefit? If you are “paying for your kid as a single father” as you claim then I would assume he falls within the child benefit category? If not then he/she is an adult and you’re not responsible for them. And I am not “trying” anything. I’m just pointing out you are benefitting from this budget and better than many others will be. Am I wrong? If so explain.
@Daniel Roche: I work in the system and am very well aware what single parents are entitled to, under law. So go on, what did I get wrong. Or what did I “lie” about lol?
@Gearoid MacEachaidh: single fathers don’t get anything,we used to get €100 a month,that’s gone and only the mother can claim it,you are totally wrong and it’s actually just mad how wrong you are, best of luck my friend.
@Daniel Roche: OK so either you’re NOT a single father and the child is living with his mother and you’re paying maintainence for your child, as any father should. Or the child is living with you and you ARE recieving child benefit like every other parent in the country and will benefit from the double payment announced today. Which one is it? You’re being very vague, I wonder why. But if you are a single father and your child is living with you you receive child benefit and will receive the double payment. No point lying about this Daniel or telling me I don’t know what I’m talking about which seems to be your go-to retort to anyone who questions you. Literally everyone in the country knows how Child Benefit works.
@Gearoid MacEachaidh: I think he means he has a child that lives with the child’s mother and this chap does not live with them he lives in a different place and pays child maintenance like many fathers that have children with women that they don’t live with.
@Daniel Roche: not really my fault the Mrs left you. Also your mortgage is for your own house and your pension is for your benefit too.
Now come on down to 36 k where you can’t afford to buy a house or invest in a pension. You haven’t a clue pal
@Brian O’Grady: I see a lot of people on disability who’s only problem is the ability to get up before midday, also they seem to have miraculous recoverys at the weekends
@Ian Cryan: yes that’s what I assume his situation is. So why doesn’t he just say that? In that case his wife is a single mother and unless he shares custody 50/50 then his wife would get the child benefit. If he does share custody 50/50 the mother usually gets the child benefit alright unless there is a different agreement between the parents. This can be reflected in any maintenence payment. But we’ll never know because he is being vague and calling everyone a liar. We can only guess his situation.
Mute he didnt take the 120k because he already got it s
Favourite he didnt take the 120k because he already got it s
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@Rob Cahill: the same people that get wage increases every year in the budget through taxes, min wage increase means im barely earning above min wage now, even the scroungers get more than i do out of the budget
@: And where is your evidence to support your presupposition? The unemployment rate right now is 4.2%, the long term unemployment rate is 1.2%. I have no idea what a “a very long time” is to you but according to the CSO, almost 72.5% of people on the dole have been there a year or less which is by definition described as “short-term unemployed”. Many of the long-term unemployed are stay-at-home parents (read the “Growing up in Ireland Reports if you want the empirical data on that stuff). Young people have much higher unemployment rates which skews the average somewhat. For example the unemployment rate for 15-19-year-olds is 18% and for 15-25-year old’s is 12.2%.
@ Hugh De Payans. And where is your evidence to support your presupposition? The unemployment rate right now is 4.2%, and the long term unemployment rate is 1.2%. I have no idea what a “very long time” is to you but according to the CSO, almost 72.5% of people on the dole have been there a year or less which is by definition described as “short-term unemployed”. Many of the long-term unemployed are stay-at-home parents (read the “Growing up in Ireland Reports if you want the empirical data on that stuff). Young people have much higher unemployment rates which skews the average somewhat. For example, the unemployment rate for 15-19-year-olds is 18% and for 15-25-year old’s is 12.2%.
@Wolfgang Bonow: That’s puritan rubbish – if you won the lottery tomorrow, would you consider yourself “worthless” because you hadn’t saved that sum by hard labour?
@Christy Dolan: No. Some long-suffering people do act as carers for a pittance with no respite. They contribute far more than you realise. There are people minding children so their parents can go to work. If people have “an obligation” to look after family full-time, they should have enough to live on and occasional breaks. That does nothing for the hardworking people who were orphaned or indeed taken into care by our State and who either have no family or aren’t allowed to know of family members.
@Donal Desmond: every town and village and city has generations of families that never worked a day in there life and know the system inside out, down the road from me there is a family and the couple have a council house each and they rent one out and none of there family ever worked
@Sill Scoundrel: long term unemployed is classed as 9 months when your assessed for unemployment assistance you are then long term unemployed. That’s when you get Xmas bonus fuel allowance and all other benefits. Short term is the first 9 months and all your intitled to is your stamp you paid and no bonus or fuel allowance
Yes social welfare and pensioners got a increase. As a pensioner I contributed to this state when we were taxed to the hilt. Every time there was a recession and people lost there jobs the likes of FFG within weeks were pointing to the burden of people on the dole. It is the same FFG who state people who get up early should be looked after …Just another soundbite from Varadkar. They are quite willing to exempt the banks from corporate taxes for the next 20 years, and sweet deals for Vulture companies, Tax brakes for the higher earners , and yet people point to social welfare…While the blame is squarely on the shoulders of FFG/ Greens.
@Hugh De Payans: As I stated in any society there will be people who abuse the system, but the vast majority will seek employment. On the other hand the Vulture companies invited in and giving the green carpet by Noonan pay the minimum amount of tax. The banks bailed out using taxpayers money and the same taxpayers including those on social welfare were again forced through austerity to repay again for the gangsterism of the banks and developers facilated by the same political parties. The same banks who now get 20 years corporate tax free. You point the finger at social welfare? Yet in this budget..landlords will receive more than the people who rent…Sweet Jesus.
It’s a pity every budget is give very little. Take more. Where did this prsi come out of. Mmmm. The pension was 15€ up to yesterday. Now it’s back to 12€. Because health is way over budget. But that’s the case every year. They just keep throwing money at it. But not fixing it. Too many chiefs. Not enough Indians I’m afraid. So carry on regardless. That was film with a good laugh. Much the same as all this. A bad joke.
@Staker Wallace: I am a pensioner over 65. I’ve paid my taxes as I worked. Big taxes too. And I do not see myself as a layabout under any circumstances. I’m only getting back some of what I paid.
@Tomasso San Roque: depending on your current age without economic migrants and their children you won’t have a pension if its a couple of decades away, so think of it as an investment in the future.
@John Flanagan: I think it’s fair to say that when people refer to welfare payments, they are referring to people who are able bodied and eligible to work but who choose not to. I don’t think anyone has an issue with people who don’t have to work because they’ve retired or who physically can’t work.
@Tomasso San Roque: you seem to think I mentioned anything about state handouts. You’re the one that mentioned economic migrants. I’m assuming that meant workers. They’re contributing not getting handouts. Someone mentions concern about the future elderly population of the state and you immediately go to it’s a humanitarian issue? Of course it is and a more immediate solution is demanded than hoping this nation can somehow suddenly have loads of children within a short space of time. Look at childcare in scandanavia, they have those great childcare and incentives for people to have children, but look at that, they’re having even less children, so yes, you appear to be missing it.
@Tomasso San Roque: it just seems like neither solution is workable, the solution is probably more complex than both of our angles. One, make it more affordable, that doesn’t seem to work going on every other country in Europe that’s done that, bar à tiny uptick, secondly import workers, has an effect but does change the demographic of a country and influences it’s cultural mix. Maybe a combo is the best bet.
€65 a month extra for someone on €42000, giving a total of €780 extra a year. A social welfare recipient gets a minimum of an extra €400 plus an increase of €12 per week, giving a total of €1024 extra a year. Basing this on someone who’s not worked a day in their lives and doesn’t have children.
@Ashling Fenton: I don’t believe that. No one’s entitled to social welfare if they haven’t paid into the system while they were working. If people are completely trapped in poverty, that’s all they’ll have to live on, the bare minimum. Most of the social welfare budget goes to pensions that were built up over decades.
@F Fitzgerald: you are intitled to social welfare when you turn 18 and not in school anymore and if you never get employment you still get it until you reach pension age and then get contribution pension as everytime you sign on weekly you get half a prsi stamp and once you have 520 prsi stamps built up you get the full pension
Ireland 2004 same headline
Ireland 2024 same headline
Irish People same conditions, may be worse …..
Insanity to keep repeating electing same People ,expecting different results.
@ibrahim Sudane: It is crazy. Passing money to parents to raise children to work in zero hour contracts who will never be able to afford anywhere to live.
Favourite a million ,really ! country is gone mad .
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Oct 10th 2023, 9:14 AM
A fella jumping into his double parked car at navan Post office shouting to another Lad ” we getting a rise tomorrow “laughing his head off .
We are the fools, and the bigger fools keep on giving .
@a million ,really ! country is gone mad .:
I seen this today at the same time in Navan,
Totally true story bro, it was a Rolls Royce and his chauffeur opened the door for him as he was jumping in laughing at all of us…
Anybody who believes these FACT stories are big fools alright,
It makes me laugh though,
It’s the new “coming here taking our jobs” line.
@a million ,really ! country is gone mad .: Double parked outside the post office with a Garda station literally across the road. That is mad in fairness
So the Government are setting aside €4b for Ukrainian refugees housing + €3b for the weather! A total of €7b which would build 48,275 modular homes at the current going rate of €145,000 a pop… what a country!
“Mortgage interest relief will also be announced for homeowners who have been badly hit by rate hikes. Around 160,000 mortgage holders will benefit from time limited relief worth €1,250″
If I chose to take the risky option of a variable rate when agreeing a mortgage with a bank, it should not be up to my neighbour (who was cautious and thought about the long term and chose the fixed rate) to bail me out to tune on 1250 euros when times get tough. This is effectively what is happening here, the taxpayer is being forced to reward poor decision making on the part of mortgage holders. If you chose the risky road you must be prepared to accept and live with the consequences.
The vast majority of carers work harder than any individual moaning about lazy people getting €12. Carers are required to care a minimum of 149.5 hours per week. What job requires that level of commitment for a fraction of minimum wage. Additionally there is billions in savings to the economy through the healthcare system and the social contribution of supporting individuals to remain in the community rather than hospitals or care homes. Also, let’s take into consideration the number of carers getting no support because their contribution to society, including giving up careers, social lives, physical and mental health, is invalidated by having either personal savings or a partner earning over the means limit. Therefore government and society expected some carers to work 24/7 for free.
I couldn’t agree more. Carers contribute so much while being unable to save towards their own retirement into the deal. It’s deeply wrong. I’m sure people working in care homes are on low wages also, but they at least can have time off.
Wow! The taxpayer has been failed again. The 20% band should be 50k or very close to it. And the usc scrapped. The narrative on reducing usc rate at a cost to revenue is false. As it is a temporary tax (albeit an eternal one), this should read as a reduction in bonus taxation, as it’s something that should not be there and should have been removed long ago, given its temporary nature. It’s a continuous austerity cost to the taxpayer. A rate reduction is Absolutely not a cost to the state.
@Ashling Fenton: it’s an insult to the taxpayer. Those who have entered the workforce in the last 10 years or so should be informed that USC should not be a line on their payslip, as it was introduced as a temporary tax. A simple search will confirm just that, despite the government’s attempts to rewrite history.
@Fintan Stack: You’re absolutely right. It’s piling pressure on people who are just about managing so far and no one deserves extra costs that weren’t there when they started working. I’d add that property tax is a disgraceful imposition on people whose bank still owns the property and they’re paying through the nose for a mortgage. Certainly tax people who own a house or two outright – but let people pay off their mortgages before piling on the taxes for property they don’t even own.
@Fintan Stack: if you heard the interview with minister of finance this evening he said the USC is now a permanent tax and will be reduced a bit over time but will never go below 2%
We’re at a massive surplus and no resources available for people with mental health, including Autistic children, the most vulnerable class of society, the people who can’t speak out are being slowly displaced by a careless government. I have heard of so many cases of people being suicidal, they just tell them “take a few pills and off you go” just to find them dead.
The economy will collapse if healthy people able to work are left languish on the dole for years.
Even.locally places are shutting up early or not at all because of lack of staff.
It is bleak.
@Chris O’Brien: that’s an absolute lie. I cannot find the stats for the previous 12 months, happy for you to show me where you found them so i could check them out myself, that would be much appreciated. But I did find the stats for 2019 which is the most recent EU comparative I found. Ireland spent €9,815 PER PERSON on social protection in 2019 which compared to an EU average of €8,769. Thats nearly 12% above EU average. So actually impossible for us to be spending the lowest. We know you are one of either a long term dole recipient or a socialist Chris, thats incredibly clear based on all your comments, but telling baltent lies does not help your cause. Just a thought.
@Chris O’Brien: Per capita, England, Spain, Switzerland, Iceland, Portugal, Greece, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia etc etc all have lowest social welfare spends. Source : https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SOCX_AGG
So save us your BS.
Ireland has the highest cost of living in the EU and the lowest rate if social welfare, even when adding in things like fuel allowance and child benefit.
Eg Germany pays recipients rent + €500. Child benefit is 600 for the first child. 500 for the second.
We inherited the moral compass of Sir Charles Trevelyan:
‘Trevelyan is mostly remembered for his relucantance to disburse direct government food and monetary aid to the Irish during the famine due to his strong belief in laissez-faire economics. He also wrote highly disparaging remarks about the Irish in a letter to an Irish peer, stating that “the judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson”.’
Of course we claim to be Christian. But no one could look at our slavish obsession with wealth, and hatred of the poor, and assume we’ve even bothered to glance at a bible.
Today we gave the poor – many of which are poor due to long term mental illness – people who need services we don’t have and refuse to fund, an extra €50/month.
These comments are littered with people attacking the poor – as always – and echoing the sentiments of one of the worst people to ever hold influence in this country.
Whoop whoop, me and the wife, both working full time, will be €20.50 a week better off between us! Let’s start planning next years holiday – to Courtown.
Once again the budget has ignored the pleas of Foster carers to increase the allowance and delayed it until the end of next year.
14 months for a payment that has not increased in 14 years
Tusla is in crisis. Foster carers are quitting at an alarming rate and leaving all the training and experience accumulated over decades as they see themselves as less than wanted by the government.
Foster carers are usually empathetic people who don’t like to speak up. They now feel bullied by the continuing ignorance of the finance department of this country.
I hope you can help Foster carers with a voice as they are exhausted by this treatment.
Foster parents have to fight for schooling, services, and the voice of the child. Children who are once again being swept aside by society.
@Daniel Gilroy: Here is what you do, go on to Google Scholar, type in “the impact of inequality” and you will find tens of thousands of peer-reviewed studies from fields such as economics, epidemiology and healthcare, sociology, criminology, and psychology- all of them detailing this subject from different angles and the evidence supports what he is saying- The more inequality you have in a society, the more health and social problems you will have. You will have more physical health problems, more crime, higher imprisonment rates, more violence, higher murder rates, higher addiction rates, higher child mortality rates, higher rates of mental illness, higher rates of teen pregnancies, higher rates of homeless, etc., etc. Just go read the evidence because it is way too extensive to get into on social media but it all points to the same conclusion. The people living in countries with the lowest levels of inequality (even if they are overall poorer) are happier, healthier, and safer than those living in more unequal countries (even if those countries are wealthier). If you want a specific source you can start by reading “The Spirit Level” by Wilkinson and Picket. Or maybe you can produce evidence showing that inequality is beneficial for society?
75c on cigarettes?! That’s criminal, it doesn’t dissuade smokers it just encourages a black market with unregulated products. They call a 0.5% reduction in USC a reduction? The rumour was 2%. Oh man what am I going to do with my extra €15/month? Oh yeah pay for cigarettes
Minimum wage goes to over 12 euro an hour. Meanwhile family carers caring full time for an adult and saving the state billions get less than 1.50 euro an hour with their €12 a week rise. IF they meet a means test. If they don’t meet the means test, they are still expected to provide full time care with no payment.
You know all the welfare begrudges are out today. Yes some might not be working. They might out volunteering in their local community. Volunteering is just as good as working although not being paid for the work is a negative. It’s learning a new skill, making new friends and gaining experience. Least they aren’t sitting on their arse doing nothing. How many people here are out volunteering? Not many
@alan scott: if you’re ABLE bodied there is no reason why you should be on dole. And yes I am angry that my young layabout 23 year old nephew will benefit more per week in this budget than the Whooping €10.60 I will get. Absolute joke of a country
So after using there budget calculator I am €13 a week better off, I live in rural Ireland with no public transport so have to drive.work 55 hours in 5 days no benefits of any kind, yippie do da,
If I was on the dole I would get the €12 extra a week for sitting on my hole plus a few lump sum payments of €400 plus medical card and my daughter would get the full Susi grant. But no the working middle has to stay working to pay the tax so the rich can pay less and for people to sit at home and get money. Great little country
@Bomber: Yes! We must deflect from any notion that we in fact have staged this event, as per our usual operandi, in our history of conflict with the savages. To quote our great leader and defence minister Minister Yoav Gallant, “we fighting against human animals”. That is why we must deny these animals food and water. We must cage them, imprison them, eliminate them quick. Now is the time. That Temple ain’t gonna build itself ya know.
As always the comments on these budget articles read like they were written by Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet.
Maybe Google him and read his comments and see if you’d prefer Ireland still be controlled by the English. Because most of these commentators would’ve supported the deliberate mass murder of the poor.
I have scrolled up and down, twice, and I can’t see any disparaging reference to a ‘nanny state’. Have I just missed it or, heaven be praised, is it just not there??
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: I don’t know how to scroll but I can tell you this nanny state needs to wake up if they think that I can afford smokes after this!
Some people will get a little out of it but the elephant in the room is housing. I think they have more or less given up on it as real action was required around the time of Simon Coveney and ‘rebuilding Ireland’. That was in 2017 and I think they know it’s too late to rescue it even if there was the will which I also don’t think there is. The only thing they do is fuel prices with more demand side measures as a fall in prices can’t be contemplated. Too many vested interests and they have nailed their colours to their mast in the hope that those voters will be enough for another go of the current coalition. The thing is pumping up prices with demand side measures will eventually come a cropper anyway in the general movement of the property cycle.
Please change your ‘highlight’ colour! I normally read white on black background to make it easier to read, so your dark blue highlighting is not legible at all.
I’m totally behind carers getting looked after properly (which they are not) same for pensioners. Same for short term unemployed. I am not happy that career dolers are constantly rewarded for sitting on their holes.
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Information about your activity on this service (for instance, forms you submit, non-advertising content you look at) can be stored and combined with other information about you (such as your previous activity on this service or other websites or apps) or similar users. This is then used to build or improve a profile about you (which might for example include possible interests and personal aspects). Your profile can be used (also later) to present content that appears more relevant based on your possible interests, such as by adapting the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find content that matches your interests.
Use profiles to select personalised content 47 partners can use this purpose
Content presented to you on this service can be based on your content personalisation profiles, which can reflect your activity on this or other services (for instance, the forms you submit, content you look at), possible interests and personal aspects. This can for example be used to adapt the order in which content is shown to you, so that it is even easier for you to find (non-advertising) content that matches your interests.
Measure advertising performance 173 partners can use this purpose
Information regarding which advertising is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine how well an advert has worked for you or other users and whether the goals of the advertising were reached. For instance, whether you saw an ad, whether you clicked on it, whether it led you to buy a product or visit a website, etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of advertising campaigns.
Measure content performance 77 partners can use this purpose
Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you.
Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources 108 partners can use this purpose
Reports can be generated based on the combination of data sets (like user profiles, statistics, market research, analytics data) regarding your interactions and those of other users with advertising or (non-advertising) content to identify common characteristics (for instance, to determine which target audiences are more receptive to an ad campaign or to certain contents).
Develop and improve services 113 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers.
Use limited data to select content 49 partners can use this purpose
Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
Use precise geolocation data 64 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification 36 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors 119 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Deliver and present advertising and content 123 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Match and combine data from other data sources 92 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Link different devices 65 partners can use this feature
Always Active
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 113 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 100 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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