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by 908087 9y ago
Most of what I've read on techdirt over the past couple years seems to represent a bad faith effort to frame the current situation as "ISPs vs. Silicon Valley and the users", where the reality of the situation is "ISPs a
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Techdirt really doesn't live up to its name. When that site isn't actively avoiding major stories that make Silicon Valley megacorps look bad, they're busily defending the Surveillance Valley business model outright. The &qu
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Under GDPR, Facebook will be facing some serious trouble if they try to continue the not-really-deletion deletion thing, so at least there's some hope for those who reside in Europe on this front. That said, even for those who are in c
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by 908087 9y ago
When Trump got elected, I was hopeful that it would result in the many people who were asleep at the wheel on surveillance-related issues (among other matters that self-described democrats were willing to ignore as long as "their guy&q
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I remember these other things we used to put on the wall and use to control the lights. We called them "light switches", and they didn't require secondary devices to have apps installed in the middle. They were also incredi
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If the industry didn't want what they're trying to spin as an "overreaching" standard like GDPR, maybe they shouldn't have spent so much time and effort seeing how far they could push their abuse of users' priv
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The more noise I hear those who work in "ad tech" and other fields that have been marching towards the destruction of privacy making about GDPR, the more confident I become that it might actually help.
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My ISP can't sniff what I'm doing on a properly encrypted website. Google Analytics and Facebook "like" buttons, however, certainly can and do.
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> The Facebook offices I've seen are filled with posters and messages that are more inclusive and respectful across different cultures and minorities. Most cults use positive imagery to keep the flock drinking the kool-aid. All the
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Signal.
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How about we stop suggesting a messaging app that styles itself as privacy-oriented and encrypted despite not being end to end encrypted by default, and using questionable encryption even for the optional E2E functionality that nobody uses?
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HN is full of dismissals because many on HN work at Facebook and other companies that rely on being able to continue abusing our privacy. They want the stories to stop because they fear the general public may finally be gaining awareness of
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Yes, I'm sure Facebook's goals are entirely altruistic just as they were when they performed psychological experiments on hundreds of thousands of people without consent. Why are we still giving this company the benefit of the dou
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> and maybe let us directly share thoughts with each other ...and various advertising corporations.
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I find Zuckerberg's argument that Facebook needs to be the way it is so that "people who can't afford it can have access" pretty repulsive and incredibly sleazy. If people can't afford a few dollars a month, why in
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Maybe we should take that as a sign that announcing every trip to visit grandma to the world just isn't a thing we need to be doing.
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Sending birthday wishes and condolences via Facebook seems more like an insult to me than "necessary stuff". If you give a fuck about someone, you'll make some kind of actual effort for such events. Doesn't Facebook &qu
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If that was the case, I wouldn't expect to see so much objectively false information treated as fact and massively upvoted in subs such as /r/technology. Reddit's user base might enjoy the belief that it is technically
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by 908087 9y ago
I heard the same thing about Facebook and Google invading privacy "people will just move to another platform if they start getting too creepy!". Still waiting on that...
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I really wish I could find a source that has a picture of this one: > "You can't watch your kids 24/7," reads one poster, which has a picture of Schumer, Zuckerberg, and a shirtless Anthony Wiener outside Facebook&#x2
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> the specific typos of info I use it for That was inadvertantly a perfect way to describe the "info" people get from Facebook.
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Unfortunately it wasn't a complete failure. While India did reject Zuckerberg's attempt to become the internet there, it is my understanding that the program is widespread in other parts of the world.
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Yes, both Google and Facebook do exactly that.
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...and once again, an article that could have actually gone in depth on this topic, manages to leave out the data these companies collect and purchase from third parties (e.g. credit card transactions) and public records. An accurate title
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I agree to an extent, but using Chrome to begin with kind of seems like it would be antithetical to the use of AdNauseam, or at least somewhat self-defeating given the support you'd be giving to Google.
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This is what you're looking for: https://adnauseam.io/
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I didn't realize that Mozilla started charging people for Firefox.
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Given the number of people they included in that experiment, there's a good chance they did actually drive some of them to suicide. Facebook probably even knows who, but I doubt they'll ever share that data and rat themselves out
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I never signed up, yet I know Facebook has data about me anyway. How exactly did I "agree to this"?
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by 908087 9y ago
The whole "we shouldn't regulate Facebook because it will help Facebook" thing really seems like an underhanded attempt at tricking privacy advocates and others to fight against their own best interests. In reality, it depend

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