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by 908087 8y ago
When many of the "rules" they're playing by are the way they are as a result of the massive amount of money those corporations spend lobbying to keep them that way, they no longer get to play the "we're just playing
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by 908087 8y ago
Imagine being a kid born after Facebook became a thing, and finding out later in life that your parents robbed you of the chance to decide for yourself whether or not you wanted corporations to have that data.
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by 908087 8y ago
Google forgot to charge their energy crystals?
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by 908087 8y ago
If you're cooking, the timer on your oven should literally be right in front of your face. Every use case I hear parroted to justify the installation of audio surveillance devices in our homes sounds like a solution desperately in sear
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by 908087 8y ago
Either of which could be done just as quickly by setting a timer on your oven/microwave or pulling out your phone.
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by 908087 8y ago
When businesses tune their platforms to elicit exactly this type of behavior, and have psychologists on staff to help them do so, it's absolutely a business problem as well. People aren't blameless, but neither are the businesses
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by 908087 8y ago
I've never been to a small town where the shopkeeper asks for my address book and to briefly scan my personal communications for keywords "to improve our services and deliver a more relevant shopping experience".
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by 908087 8y ago
> Imagine if we had done the same with email or the web itself. Give it time, we've certainly been trying. See: chrome, amp, gmail, etc.
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by 908087 8y ago
Google Analytics also pierces the encryption that hides much of your activity on the modern web from your ISP.
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by 908087 8y ago
How long should one charge their energy crystals for before attempting this?
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by 908087 8y ago
A "student privacy pledge" involving Google kind of makes my blood boil, given their push to have schools force children onto their platform via chromebooks. It's just like "don't be evil": nothing more than u
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by 908087 8y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you square your belief in a decentralized web with working for a company that has plagued us with "innovations" like amp?
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by 908087 8y ago
Most of the people I encounter who go out of their way to "signal wealth" are only wealthy if you consider massive debt a form of wealth.
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by 908087 8y ago
It was an anonymous bid, and the "creators" of the piece apparently met at a blockchain conference. I know what conclusion I drew from that, but I'll leave you to draw your own.
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by 908087 8y ago
Would you be similarly comfortable with your cell provider censoring your calls and/or texts? After all, it's unacceptable to force them not to censor whatever they feel like.
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by 908087 8y ago
So start with Alphabet?
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by 908087 8y ago
The problem is that those who defend Amazon will continue claiming it "isn't a monopoly" as long as there's so much as a single person selling 5 widgets per year on the internet, reducing Amazon's market share to on
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by 908087 8y ago
Is this satire?
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by 908087 8y ago
Youtube is Google.
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by 908087 8y ago
Do you somehow choose to avoid everything hosted on AWS? How do you avoid the wider societal effects of Facebook, and how do you avoid their collection of data on you via third parties?
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by 908087 8y ago
Good luck avoiding having your data collected by facebook via third parties, and good luck avoiding the effects it has on the society you live in.
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by 908087 8y ago
If Amazon achieve their goal, you won't have the option of going to your neighborhood supermarket.. because it will have either been run out of business or acquired by Amazon.
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by 908087 8y ago
If the regulation prevents a new startup from trying to emulate Facebook's damaging business model, that's a good thing. We don't need any more surveillance/manipulation corporations, the market is already thoroughly sa
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by 908087 8y ago
That "award" ceremony video is both surreal and ridiculously cringe-inducing at the same time. It wouldn't surprise me if he actually felt like he had "achieved" something when he gave himself that award, either. I
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by 908087 8y ago
If you linked it to your real phone number or any of your real friends who have you in their contacts (which they've most likely shared with Facebook), you're not fooling FB.
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by 908087 8y ago
So is Signal, which isn't under the control of a mass surveillance / advertising corporation. Replacing Facebook with Google is just replacing one form of terminal cancer with another.
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by 908087 8y ago
Sending postcards to a few friends isn't the same thing as immediately broadcasting them to millions of people in seek of points on a gamified bragging platform.
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by 908087 8y ago
Seeing railings put up on previously pristine cliffs to protect idiots from killing themselves taking selfies is infuriating.
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by 908087 8y ago
The only thing Google has any interest in minimizing in China is the percentage of the search/ad market outside of their control.
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by 908087 8y ago
Peter Popoff probably had a hard time understanding why people had a problem with his activities as well.

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