payment processing isn’t handled by individual websites. You can see this one is powered by Square (that mobile pay company with the little white pucks you could slide into your headphone jack back in the day)

That’s definitely less than ideal.

I’m not trying to support AI but I’m pretty sure the water that is “lost” to data centers is due to evaporation, which would return it to the water cycle. I think the rest of the water use is “closed loop”, so minimal losses.

cannibalistic spiders?

If spiders are in your house, then something for them to eat is in your house too.

look at it from the pessimist’s point of view, they could have killed side loading too!