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by autoexec 6mo ago
It looks like it's also gathering info on your OS and graphics card which seems very much "your computer"
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by autoexec 6mo ago
NoScript will prevent that script from loading and scanning extensions. JS is required for almost all fingerprinting and malware spread via websites. Keeping it disabled, at least by default, is the best thing you can do to protect yourself
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Disable JS and you've eliminated the vast majority of fingerprinting (besides "blocks JS")
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by autoexec 6mo ago
It's probably better to let them spy on your highly encrypted traffic going overseas than use a US based service considering that they can march into any US company and start collecting every bit of data ( https://en.wikipedi
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by autoexec 6mo ago
It turns out that "makes the most money for a small amount of people" is pretty much the same as "makes everything shitty for everyone else". It's time that we either stop accepting "most profitable" as an
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Whales are the tiny percentage of users who spend large amounts of actual money on bullshit non-products offered by mobile apps and online platforms. AKA suckers.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
That'd be ideal because it would mean I could browse the internet without ads and just never use AI chatbots. Unfortunately I think ads are only going to spread and what we'll actually end up with is "more ads everywhere&quot
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by autoexec 6mo ago
People believe whatever they want to be true. If people were just slaves to authority the US would have far fewer covid deaths. Some people really are bootlickers, but even then they tend to choose whose boots they bend over for. It's
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by autoexec 6mo ago
What's the security reason they need this? How many times has a security camera failed to do its job because it didn't have audio? What crimes do they thing they are going to solve? Are people breaking into the courthouse wearing
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> At the moment, maybe Google Search, throwing away the AI response at the top? Or Duck Duck Go, Even past the summary and the ads a huge amount of results that come back from both google and DDG are AI generated. It's sometimes har
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by autoexec 6mo ago
What are the odds that Anthropic is building a psychological profile on you based on your prompts and when and how quickly you lose control over your emotions?
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Not directly, but some features require the Apple Games app which I believe requires an account and does have IAPs.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
What is the difference between a chess app and a candy crush app exactly? They are both "Games I didn't ask for, but were preinstalled" Ads aren't as intrusive or annoying on a mac yet, but they aren't not intrusi
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by autoexec 6mo ago
They'll need at least a few programmers because AI doesn't actually work very well and fixes will be required. The marketing department may end up replaced by AI but so far marketers have convinced companies that they're so e
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Companies aren't investing in AI because they want to solve the problem of semicolon placement. They want AI to solve problems and come up with solutions. Then they want to fire most of their programmers and force the rest to do nothin
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by autoexec 6mo ago
We've given a lot of people a lot of reasons to hate us sure, but no matter how much you hate someone, if you see them kicking their own ass it just makes sense to let them finish before you jump in.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> Apple doesn’t load your computer up with crapware and ads from the five different companies in the supply chain. No apple prefers to have a monopoly on ads and crapware but they're still there. The internet is filled with annoyed
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Makes it easier for them to mine your files for personal data they can use to push ads I guess.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> Let's hope we don't get another 9/11 in the next 1000 days because they are completely unprepared and won't ever see it coming, maybe even on purpose Why would anyone bother to attack us now? This entire administrat
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by autoexec 6mo ago
I'd bet that a lot of those posters would have accurately predicted and called out many of the very real harms that cars have caused our society and shown that many many mistakes we've made could have been avoided.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> Imagine someone works for an organization, and 'the rules and constraints' require them to murder (without legal consequence) innocent people on a regular basis; Several large corporations really are guilty of murdering innoc
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> No IT professional is going to say to use a fax machine for security. An IT professional will say don't open PDF files from every random email that comes into your publicly posted email address though.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
I highly doubt it. Not accepting PDF files from random email addresses that send to your very publicly listed email address is a smart policy. One angry jerk trying to DoS the fax machine is not going to change the policy. At best, it'
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> Also, the kind of Karens described in the post usually enjoy their position and the meager power they hold over other humans. Do you have a citation for that or is that just an idea of a villain you've invented in your head? Karen
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by autoexec 6mo ago
It's needlessly generating excessive amounts of trash and waste. It's wasting tax money. It's hurting the next blind person who won't be able to fax his documents because the machine is down/overloaded. It does not
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by autoexec 6mo ago
They're still doing business. Every single day. With hundreds of billions in revenue and an increasing number of stores popping up all over the place. Impact can be non-zero and still be not enough to meaningfully change anything.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> You are conflating copyright with free expression. No, copyright is a direct infringement on free expression. We've just tolerated it because the trade off was worth it. Not worth it because people would get rich and that was impo
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> That's fine, but it needs an enforcement mechanism, or we're back to where we currently are ("click here if you're 18"). It'd be dead simple to tell if a website returned a rating or not, just pull the htt
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Using a firestick means amazon collects data on what you watch regardless of the platform you view it on. Also ads.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
To me "a lot of fuss" includes having to sign up for a walmart account and dealing with ads being shoved in my face

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