There was personal information included in the data. Did no one actually read the article?

Marketing.

Only idiots think Apple is privacy friendly lol.

Apple has everyone fooled.

Apple are privacy-focused insofar as they will privately sell your data, sneakily.

So you're saying it's relatively cheap for the privilege of being in an abusive relationship?

What are people doing to get this message? I haven't seen a YouTube ad in so long I can't remember.

• Don't use the official app, use something like NewPipe or the equivalent on iPhone, on desktop use Firefox with uBlock origin (go into settings and enable filters at your leisure)

• Get a VPN that has adblocking built in (I use Mullvad, I honestly don't know how effective it is because I have other adblocking as well on top)

• if you want to get fancy with your home network, use AdGuard on a raspberry pi or docker or whatever works best for you

If there's an agenda, people will lie. Keep that in the back of your mind when browsing. The extent to which people will lie depends on what there is to lose and what there is to gain. There is also mass delusions, which spread because the majority of people aren't willing to take a moment to think critically or be skeptical about things. Short-form content exacerbates this and everyone wanting to be the first to spread something make the whole issue worse. To the point where things get fabricated because that naturally speeds up the production of content, rather than it happening organically and then reporting on it. The Internet as a whole has amplified this a lot.

Now you’ve outdone Google.

Alright, calm down. If they "outdid" Google, they would have their own SEO dreamland platform. All they did was work within the confines of Google's algorithms, A/B testing until something works. When Google makes changes they repeat. Overall the Internet is in a reeeeally shitty state due to the marketization of search results. There have been some things I have searched for whereby there were pages of what was essentially cloned articles. Many times I'm unable to even find what I'm looking for. Recent example, there was that article posted about that AI service / software that aimed to poison images, I don't remember the name. I tried searching for the actual software / website. I gave up and never found it through the utter bullshit "articles" all spouting the exact same thing and clearly taking advantage of the "freshness" and relevancy of the tool.

I almost literally yawned reading the title. "Journalists" regurgitating things they don't understand and hyping them everytime like it's the breakthrough of the century. I feel it waters down actual breakthroughs and makes people immune or at least apathetic to these stories because it's the same thing over and over.

That's perfect. There was a thread not too long ago discussing how Amazon Prime removed am item from someone's media library and gave them $5 as "compensation". Imagine someone coming into your house and taking something they don't sell anymore and leaving 5 bucks on your kitchen counter for your troubles. So many people in this world want their cake and eat it too, you can't have it both ways. If it was agreed that buying a digital asset conferred some type of ownership, they might have an argument now. They made their bed, now they can piss off and do what they want with it, it's theirs to do with as they please because we can never own a part of it.

Why are medical devices operating on the same band as consumer devices??

Destroying environments? Wasting money and fuel on false-promises (the Elon way)? I'm sure there's a tonne of other reasons.

Have you read The Trial? Funny how history repeats itself, even if it's from "fiction".

If we're talking about alternatives to YouTube, should the bar for "quality" users really be those who haven't yet been banned from YouTube? Does it really matter? If you can choose what you look at, subscribe to, etc. I'm not sure I fully understand the fear, or your point as to those users being on the platform as well?

It is. Something something, using their likeness (in a commercial context).

Sorry, what?

Not sure if satire

I used a soldering iron to "weld" it.

I used an exhaust, don't worry. I may be dumb, but I'm not that dumb.

Define stealing digital content.

One day they find a way to inject ads into the downloaded file, don't worry.

If you're really worried about giving out your number, you can use virtual / temporary number. Just keep in mind it complicates backups and transferring to a new phone, etc. Puts into perspective if it's worth the hassle. Or maybe you just want usernames? 😅

I joined Twitter recently. Every second post was about Musk. It's exhausting. It wasn't worth joining.

Why do you think it's not as important?

Nope! Didn't order anything so was pretty suss.

I'll try reaching out, thanks!

My point is that I'm not sure it's a good idea to use those in bad situations as the gauge as to what about privacy is important. Doing it in this way, in my opinion, risks losing sight of the core reasons why privacy should be important for everyone. And everyone, regardless of their situation can choose, if they wish, to have as little privacy as they want. However, those who choose to retain their privacy should have the freedom to do so. It shouldn't be dictated by the masses. Do we just become nihilists when things require a bit of complex thought or aren't black and white?

Sometimes it feels like a bandwagon. I'm sure a lot of the time people mindlessly downvote instinctually or are more likely to based simply on the existing score.

Haha I think 4chan is a completely different beast. I'm seeing quite differing opinions on the thread, which is cool. It's enlightening to see how people think about issues like this. I can see how both sides hold merit. Though in a way I disagree on simply telling people they're wrong. I feel you can't reason a person out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. In my experience, it's much more effective to ask people questions and maybe they begin to see, or not, it's out of my control at that point.

I tried looking into "carbon neutral" the other day and got lost in a sea of bullshit. I didn't find a source that goes into the whole process in actual detail. I mean explaining things and giving practical examples of it all. I came out of it thinking, wow it's all just complete nonsense. "We do what we can to reduce emissions, then pay someone else to 'offset' the remaining emissions somehow by mysterious companies". Don't ask any more questions, okay? It's magic.

Thanks! I thought Blender was for making 3D animations? Didn't realise you can use it for video editing. I can potentially use Whisper for transcriptions.

HTC TyTN II. Loved that thing. Used to pay Age of Empires on it.

It was shortened so wasn't immediately obvious, though not from a common URL shortening service - not that that matters too much. But I'm the same, better to be suspicious first.

Had mine for over 20 years until it disappeared. Years later still no idea what happened to it. Only issue I had with it was the clock it had, broke halfway through owning it.

To each their own!

Never heard of Beehaw, I'll check it out. And yes, the chilling effect is a real thing, unfortunately. Sorry to hear you've felt that way about posting.

Sounds like you've never trained. If you want to try kickboxing or Muay Thai you're not going to be starting out sparring. You'll be learning the basics. That is, of course unless you're at some dodgy ass gym that pushes everyone to spar right out of the gate. In which case you should avoid and go to a proper gym. If you're getting many hard hits to the head in training starting out you're doing it wrong or your partner is an asshole. Just do it. I trained with other people in IT, I remember one guy was a C++ programmer. Stop over thinking it and go for it.

Do you think perhaps that valuing privacy differently from one individual to the next would have a net negative effect? If we're now also talking about threat assessments, that's another topic altogether, with privacy only being a part.

Totally agree that it helps in dangerous regions (depending of course on the source of the dangers). I shouldn't be deciding on what level of privacy you should be entitled to. Democracy, or any decision making, whatever you want to call them that involves making decisions that affect many people will be a constant battle. Ideally we should be giving people as many protections as feasible, while at the same time allowing them to have autonomy to choose what's appropriate for them. And you're right, thinking about the future is something we (as the human race) don't tend to do enough of, leading to many short-sighted decision-making because votes. Nice chat, see ya round.

WTF

I think your comment is the best take I've read so far. I agree wholeheartedly. As soon as I read it I thought of when I used to play WoW. Many alts I created similar to this. Having a fresh character, but something new without all the complications that came with being a higher level, more useless "responsibilities" with no real pay off. Because in the end it was still just a game. You may not fully see the connection, just know I understand where you're coming from in my own way. Thanks for sharing.