Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.
Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.
Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.
@domenic it's the circle of life.
@curiousthinker I'm definitely upset by this, but I'm not sure which of the many reasons to be upset are actually upsetting me.
@william looks like a 4chan op.
(But then, it would look like one if it was real too.)
@ipg remember when the biggest torrent downloads were World of Warcraft updates?
Six malicious packages on PyPI, the Python Package Index, were found installing information-stealing and RAT (remote access trojan) malware while using Cloudflare Tunnel to bypass firewall restrictions for remote access.
When I Bookmark something, it's just for me.
When I Like something, it's just for me and the person who made the post.
When I boost something, it's because I want to share it with others.
There's no software in the background recording and evaluating my behavior so it can decide the best ads to show me, and what I should see or not see in my feed to increase my engagement.
It's pretty nice not being the product anymore and just enjoying the web again.
#Mastodon & #TwitterMigration FTW
Dumb Political Observation
@Byrdbrnz the Clinton white house pried all the "W" keys out of all the keyboards before they left, IIRC.
@fluffy demihuman