Talk about being too dumb to argue with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

You forgot, “but we don’t do that. We do. But we don’t. Your stuff is safe with us!”

Narrator: it isn’t.

It’s truly amazing how much the digital world gets away with.

This is the most toxic take that literally empowers companies to do whatever the fuck they want. Don’t want to buy gas here, go drive 200 kms to another one there’s plenty of gas stations. Drive there only to see that company doing the exact same thing. Because as a company, why wouldn’t you?

You can’t kill the myth that competition handles itself and that if a company does a dick move, another company won’t and will get all the sales and traffic. That doesn’t happen. Outside of monopolies and basic price fixing, competitors have long realized that while they aren’t friends with each other, you are all their collective enemy. Waging war against you is all in their collective interests.

All that goes without saying that privacy at all its levels should always be a fundamental human right and not a “feature.” We need to be building on top of that model, not plugging privacy in when it suits them.

Not possible. There is no “private” way to use any Google service.

You mean worse than ASUS. The gold standard for dickery 😏

It always makes it worse for the gamer. I was sailing the high seas back then and getting cracked games was double click, and you’re good to go. Real games were please insert disc, disc not found, unable to continue. Bye.

DRM has always been an absolute bane that throws players under the bus because fuck you money

Privacy is a fundamental human right. It’s not a luxury or a means to extort or monetize customers. That’s why the EU is getting involved. Because companies like Meta will leverage them against monetization.

It’s like going to your doctor and having them tell you that unless you pay them $50 for the visit, they’ll sell your medical data to whomever.

A company has to build their services on top of privacy and security, not use either as a means to monetize or boost profits. That’s what the EU is fighting for. Because we all know what happens when it’s left up to the companies…

Research. Trying to kick up information on adblockers and how they function so they can kill the feature once and for all.

A 6 year old can see the contrived plan.

If devs are smart they would poison their data and use the event to troll Google. Wasting their cash.

Sorry but Adguard was never safe as they were always in the pocket of business.

For Apple devices: Wipr Everything else: uBlock Origin

Two independent developers that have not sold out.

So basically like using Chrome with Bing it sounds like. They don’t even anonymize the query before sending it. Zero privacy.

Behaviour patterns.

Surveillance is less about knowing specifics about one person, but broad trends on large groups. How communities respond.

This is why prices are 2.99 not 3 in many parts of the world.

Why we frame it “free delivery or 10% off for pick up” instead of “10% more for delivery.”

Why all commercials are louder than the content they play from.

Why you’re more likely to pay extra for the same item if it’s packaged nicely.

These are the data points of value to capitalism. And this is why mass surveillance is so dangerous. Because it arms those willing to exploit us with vast amounts of information, most of it unobtainable without the invasion of privacy. It’s these data that makes things like V for Vendetta possible (given the right timing).

Espionage (foreign and domestic) are the byproducts of the Information Age.

They killed Netscape and had to put in a toggle with the option of other browsers like 10 years later. They paid next to nothing in fines and legal battles, basically putting a stranglehold on the internet itself that took another 10 to kinda of undo.

Not sure if that’s a “loss.”

“May”. Lmaooo

Just transferred over my domain. Pretty impressed by their security and the fact they have an account delete button right there in settings.

Gotta say, the process was supposed to take up to 5 days but my old registrar completed it in minutes. Pretty impressive! So shoutout to Namesilo for being pretty damn stellar.

Edit: Namesilo deleted my account in minutes of sending a support request, so shout out again for being so responsive!

The built in password manager and keychain can handle OTP since a few versions back.