hiramfromthechi

@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hence why we need to remake the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nice of you, but it appears that the ad-supported business model doesn’t work. It just results in enshittification and surveillance.

  “We cannot have a society in which, if two people seem to communicate, the only way that it can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”

  Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear credit card companies make log-ins fail on purpose.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cases like these are why this extension exists: addons.mozilla.org/…/don-t-fuck-with-paste/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me too⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But is it prettier than the Puteketeke?

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least you can say the experience was lit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Source: trust me bro

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to my knowledge. It’s absolutely pathetic and honestly kinda psychotic that you’re not allowed to understand your own genealogy and medical history without giving up pretty much everything about yourself. Forever.

  Because unlike a compromised password, you can’t just hop on the computer and change your genes (yet??).

  Boils down to a legislative failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jragon⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In high school, I wrote a play for my creative writing class where the main character named Jrue—named after Jrue Holiday, one of my favorite basketball players.

  I remember the teacher got a kick out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Highlight] Giddey insane fake-to-overhead scoop assist to Chet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro been watching Magic highlights

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanna preface this by saying that I run GrapheneOS (GOS), so idk if that has anything to do with the fact that nothing has flagged my version of KDE Connect. If it’s a Google Play Services (GPS) thing, then:

  1. I guess it depends on whether you run GPS on your GOS phone, or
  2. Maybe it doesn’t even depend on #1, since GPS runs as unprivileged. I put KDE it on my GPS profile, and didn’t get any notification about this.

  Guessing this is just a Play Protect thing.

  Nevertheless, if you’re installing FOSS apps, try installing them via Obtanium instead of the Google Play Store.

  You can simply copy and paste the source code URL into Obtanium, and it’ll grab the APK, as well as notify you when there’s updates.

  It supports F-Droid, GitHub, GitLab, and other sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah okay. Guess it’s not much different than using Mullvad’s content blocking DNS then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing you can’t run it alongside a VPN then, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why privacy matters, reason #854203

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes it better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And push for legislation that doesn’t allow em to do this in the first place.

  Cause it doesn’t make it right, but on some level it’s hard to blame them for pushing the limits, if there’s no resistance or repercussion. That’s how we ended up in this mess.

  Tech moves fast. Government moves slow. Most of these issues boil down to legislative failures.

  I go hard when it comes to this. Firefox + uBlock Origin, use open source alternatives, don’t communicate outside of Signal, 2FA on everything, you name it. And it’s exhausting at times, not gonna lie. But my effort reinforces my sentiment that it shouldn’t fall to the consumer to put in all this effort just to have some a basic, healthy blend of convenience, privacy, and security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Spotube looks really interesting. It says that you can use it as anonymous/guest, but it looks like it still requires a Spotify account. I don’t have an account, but I might have to make one just to test it out lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish there was a way to permanently store this article into people’s brains.

  Well, not really. But you know what I mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole notion of “If you’re not the product, then you’re the product” died a while ago.

  Now, you’re paying for the product, and you continue to be the product.

  Paying for the product = monthly/yearly subscription You’re the product = unique identifiers, data mining/harvesting, tracked across the web, etc. Perhaps even training some AI models in the background, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has Instagram largely avoided being associated with Facebook/Meta?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, you could say the same about WhatsApp…