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by dessant 5y ago
Age verification is already mandated in the EU, and when you provide your credit card details to Google's age verification system for YouTube, they create a payments profile for you without consent. The Google account is set up for pur
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by dessant 5y ago
Internet Archive has an experimental API to perform reverse image searches. https://archive.readme.io/docs/reverse-image-search-api There is also RootAbout: http://rootabout.com/ You may have a better
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by dessant 5y ago
Google has set up a payment profile without my consent after they've asked to verify my account with a credit card. These [1] are some previous comments with the details: > A month ago I was asked in a surprise email to verify my ag
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That works to some extent, but there are packages which don't have a UI from which to check for updates, so you could end up with some services becoming outdated and broken, or just vulnerable.
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by dessant 5y ago
Galaxy Store is the only way to update several essential packages on Samsung devices, they don't publish everything on Google Play.
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by dessant 5y ago
My favourite is when you open the Galaxy Store on a flagship Samsung phone and a popup with a promoted game is shoved in your face every single time. The popup will often have a 3 second delay before it interrupts you due to the performance
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by dessant 5y ago
There is no legally required disclosure anywhere about this being a paid endorsement, so we'll have to imagine that Mozilla engineers have spent their time on working to promote a Disney movie just because it's cool and it is avai
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by dessant 5y ago
I use my own extension to always disable the automatic playback of the next video on YouTube. https://github.com/dessant/youtube-autoplay#readme
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by dessant 5y ago
Thanks so much for sharing, their website has just helped me to better understand the horizon of my city. https://www.peakfinder.org
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by dessant 5y ago
If you're adventurous you could log into Google, PayPal and social media sites. Once you get past captcha challenges and manage to access your account, they may helpfully lock your account and never let you use it again, regardless of
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by dessant 5y ago
Remember that not everyone lives at a safe distance from the events that you prefer to tune out. We haven't been referring to low probability threats that are ever present in our daily lives, but acute issues that could change our live
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by dessant 5y ago
Yes, when there is a heightened risk of nuclear contamination in Europe because of a stray rocket in a war zone, we should tune out instead.
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by dessant 5y ago
You've done it for the third time now, I will report your activity.
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For example, you're not supposed to post cheap remarks and allude to people being dishonest, just because you remembered a catchphrase from the news.
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by dessant 5y ago
On the contrary, this continues to be the time to hold your beliefs, and to express them. We should probably be more mindful about throwing such one-liners, anything can be twisted out of context.
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by dessant 5y ago
They obviously hijack the political themes that they think will resonate with the population, but that should not lead to you looking with crossed eyes to any comment that discusses far-right radicalization on social media.
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by dessant 5y ago
Facebook is full of hateful content that is illegal to post online in certain member states, do a search for German terms on Facebook to see for yourself. Then repeat the search using other European languages. Also look up antivax terms, an
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by dessant 5y ago
Meta Platforms, absolute scum. They're giving a platform for far-right political groups across the EU, therefore aiding their operation. We have reported several popular Facebook groups, pages and profiles that spread hateful content,
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by dessant 5y ago
I'm torn about this initiative. MDN should be governed by a foundation that can be funded directly , with content that is accessible for all. By introducing a paid service with private content, it will reduce incentives to contribute
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> we accepted two non-democratic countries in EU, Poland and Hungary, and these are the results. I can't speak for Poland, but the political landscape of Hungary was different when it joined the EU, and the country was by no means c
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by dessant 5y ago
The user interface does not show your account email, it is only exposed by the registry API. NPM has a button on every package listing to report malware and security issues in the package.
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by dessant 5y ago
Is there a good reason for making NPM profile emails public? I have an unique email address on NPM, and it receives a considerable amount of phishing emails that target NPM and Mailgun.
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by dessant 5y ago
I think only presidential alerts are mandatory in most places, you may be able to turn off the alerts that are not important to you.
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by dessant 5y ago
Some TVs now come with a camera, brace for a camera-based presence detection API to show up in web standards and TV operating systems. https://electronics.sony.com/tv-video/televisions/all-tvs/p/... htt
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by dessant 5y ago
A large portion of Firefox development activity is hidden away in private documents on Google Docs. They are not concerned. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5410
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by dessant 5y ago
We can just outlaw certain types of tracking, your employer does not need to be given a seat at the table, nor does it deserve one. Meta will happily use any data they can access about people, and this will just be an additional data point
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by dessant 5y ago
I live in the EU. Their support page mentions that they will ask for age verification when you attempt to watch a restricted video, but I was not using the YouTube account. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer&#x2F
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by dessant 5y ago
A month ago I was asked in a surprise email to verify my age for YouTube with a credit card, which I did to avoid landing in support hell later on, because I publish browser extensions with the Google account. I rarely log in, and I wasn&#x
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by dessant 5y ago
Here's a Booking.com employee that was part of the Consumer Psychology Team coming forward and arguing that what they've been doing is not illegal in the EU, after they were forced to change course because what they've been d
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by dessant 5y ago
No, we should not ignore the messengers. There are enough credible people and content supporting your arguments, and there is no need to shove in the fundraising campaigns of opportunistic people that regularily argue against human rights.

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