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/r/Piracy is just a bunch of memes, and this community actively talks about piracy, it's ethical philosophy and taking control over your media. There are people who pirate everything regardless of circumstances, but for the most part, I'd argue its people who have been burnt by companies whom they trusted.

Opera back in 2000s.

Compressing webpages, built in mail, built in BitTorrent client, tab stacking, "fit to width" which would remove horizontal scrollbars, page tiling, mouse gestures, rocker gestures, I think it even had a calendar.

It's a shame the direction Opera took after Jon left, but thankfully he started Vivaldi which feels like the spiritual successor.

While this doesn't apply to me; get fucked sony. A POS and a predatory company.

Honestly, good for her; that's fucking awesome.

The irony of holding an Irish flag and fighting for Russia. Fucking twit.

I fucking hate this country.

If possible, please use the internet archive extension and upload pages that haven't been uploaded ever, or in the last year.

Likewise, if you know or use another service, archive it there too!

Asked how likely big companies would be to abuse their data, Americans were most wary of TikTok (59 percent), followed by: Meta (56 percent), X/Twitter (49 percent), OpenAI (48 percent), Google (44 percent), Apple (41 percent), Amazon (40 percent), Microsoft (38 percent), Comscore (32 percent), and Adobe (31 percent).

I'm surprised people trust Microsoft and Amazon more than Apple; Amazon needs all the data they can get on you to build "better" profiles on what to sell you, ties your Alexa requests to feed advertising (you can opt out) and Microsoft, especially with Edge (post advertising and services team takeover) has been trying to send everything to Microsoft to feed both ads and their AI. FFS, even Outlook warns you now that they'll share your data with >800 "partners".

Apple is no saint, far from it, but people trust a conglomerate over it?

Kudos on getting married!

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” - George R.R. Martin

This is why I use email aliases.

Turn the email on and off at will; I know some services like Firefox Relay Premium will block promotional emails while allowing other emails.

Dr Pepper and Cold Brew make a fantastic mixed drink; it tastes similar to spiced rum with no alcohol.

This is somewhat hard to understand; is Yandex Russia different from the parent company like Google and Alphabet?

I definitely feel the enshittification of such platforms will/has led to some great software, updates, and alternative front ends. It sucks seeing platforms decay, however, I love seeing the fightback from users who aren't going to tolerate bullshit from any company.

shut up and take my gold 🪙

At a gay bar 🌈

I always saw this as just a way to compete with Google.

Can there be an option to view deleted/removed comments? (this setting a user could configure in settings)

I can understand why mods want to remove comments, but being able to see the text that was removed could be very useful. At the moment, the only way to do this would be having each post uploaded to internet archive, and hope many other lemmy users do the same thing.

Was it HP by chance? I wouldn't blame you.

Aye, congratulations on the new/upgraded PC!

He has also started paying for YouTube Premium again, despite making I believe two videos on why it's bad. Oddly enough, I noticed it in the video where he talks about his friend who repaired childhood photos of his.

If you don't need the “advanced” features of VLC's desktop app, the UWP app is beautiful and modern looking, while also providing that "opens ALL the formats" VLC UX.

Beth - Kiss.

FWIW, I'm 23 and I believe this was 2004.

Firefox Relay and email relaying/forwarding services are so useful, not just from a privacy point of view, but also being in control of accounts simply by turning off forwarding for a specific email, or just deleting the forwarding email all together. I use iCloud's Hide My Email.

I plan on cancelling Prime this year.

The only reason I haven't is that my siblings need to use my account sometimes.

The process of trying to separate from Google is tough for sure. I believe Louis Rossmann said "it like quitting heroin cold turkey; you can't, it's something you have to lean yourself off of slowly". In my case, Google Photos, Docs and Voice are the most difficult to switch from, but in the case of Google Photos and Docs, I have multiple backups in the event something happens to my account.

Bad comparison. There is no such thing as the 'Apple Pay app'. Everything is done through the Wallet app, Apple Pay uses the wallet app.

Nice internet setup! Do you use Adguard DNS/Home, or a Pihole? The amount of telemetry that IoT devices can send is crazy! I put my families Roku on my Adguard DNS, and it, no joke, sent a request to Google and Roku every 10 seconds. Echo Dots and Fire TVs also send a lot of telemetry, even with privacy options on.

I watched DS9 for the first time last year, and that Rom scene had me laughing so hard!

Same, but with Microsoft's Image Creator. At least for me, I like using it to create pixel art for my own personal GitHub repos.

More power to you man!

Don't forget to check your Amazon Alexa privacy settings to disable personalized ads, and for using your Alexa data for ads. Likewise, you can have it to where while Amazon keeps a log of what is said, it won't save voice recordings.

Ah, beat me to it!

I’d rather directly use Bing and utilize the 'Give with Bing' feature to donate to a non-profit of choice; when I did use Bing, I did it for LGBT and LGBT Youth.

In the event that you cancel music steaming services and instead opt for purchased/local music, I've read that Plex Amp is a great app that feels similar to steaming in terms of recommendations and randomization of songs. 😁

On Apple devices, it will appear as the Apple Logo: You can have it change a term to it with the following link: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/type-apple-logo-mac-iphone-ipad/

I hope you enjoy your pixel! I had a Pixel 3 XL from 2019-2021, and outside of it running warm, Google's skin of Android was a delight to use, I loved having the assistant screen calls and using the hold for me feature, it's actually what kept me back from purchasing all in the Apple ecosystem for a while. I'd argue the most niche feature I loved is that the contact or phone app would allow you to send people directly to voicemail without showing a call screen (unlike iOS which will show you the call screen); it made college alerts, prescription alerts, etc. so much easier to handle!

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