Libb
@Libb@piefed.social
A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
- Comment on Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit. 3 weeks ago:
It's an introductory offer so, yeah, one should expect to pay full p^rice starting the second year.
- Comment on Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit. 3 weeks ago:
Google offers things for free, see the shitty stuff they're doing?
Personally, I'd rather keep on paying for my newspapers and have them not do, or not as much, shitty things. And that's exactly what I do (plus I like to receive my news in print knowing no one is tracking what I'm reading and how) ;)
- Comment on Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About 1 month ago:
100%.
They don't give a crap that only large corps can 'absorb the cost' of checking age and/or ID, they just want to control/limit what we say and to whom, and what we can do online. And if that requires to kill small non-corporate-owned web (and make everything subscription-based, in the process), so be it.
When they're not being dishonest, they're incompetent and proud of it. The few that are not incompetent (and that are honest) they are not numerous enough to make a difference, which is sad. And not just in the UK. I mean, here in France it's quite interesting too, we're following steps to the UK, btw, and, what not a surprise, VPN usage has skyrocketed the second they introduced their own version of that stupid age-verification.
Next step seems obvious: make VPN use illegal for the average user (I mean people like us not, say, journalists, NGOs, lawyers and, obviously, politicians—and their families).
- Comment on Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About 1 month ago:
I wish that people would stop using kids for their own gain.
But what use are kids, then? /s
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I will only say that you should probably not that an age, but a person. It' snot their date of birth we may spend time (maybe eve our live) with , it's who they are.
Since we're on the Internet, I should probably make it clear that I mean dating a person of legal age.