millsmob

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by millsmob 5y ago
I’ve always known SI to refer to Self Injury but I’m in Australia so this could be a regional difference.
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by millsmob 5y ago
“attempting to explain to the public what they are doing” The idea that you can explain FLoC, third party cookies or any other digital advertising technology to the public is crazy talk. Ad tech is extremely complex and constantly evolvin
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by millsmob 5y ago
Ads serve capital, they do not serve me.
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by millsmob 5y ago
Did I just have a stroke?
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by millsmob 5y ago
A fair argument but I don’t think it’s really fair to compare Signal to Apple Maps because IMHO while there is a possibility that the NSA is able to somehow intercept my Signal messages on-device prior to encryption occurring; it is almo
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by millsmob 5y ago
Edward Snowden revealed that Apple has been part of the PRISM electronic surveillance program since 2012. I would agree that Apple is significantly better on user privacy than Google or Facebook but that does not mean that the NSA isn’t suc
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by millsmob 5y ago
Please use caution when relying on this website as an unbiased source of information. The ABC is Australia’s state media outlet. They rely almost entirely on our (conservative) government for funding. While they do some good investigative r
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by millsmob 6y ago
I know for a fact this happens. Gambling companies often buy marketing data from porn websites and MLM schemes in order to better target people with “impulse control issues”. Kudos to you for your recovery and sobriety!
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by millsmob 6y ago
Former gambling addict and current mental health advocate here. For anyone with an addiction or a serious mental health problem, targeted advertising can be very dangerous. Think about the “filter bubble” effect that we experience on platfo
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by millsmob 6y ago
The Atlantic Council and NATO for a start.
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by millsmob 6y ago
I don’t believe for a second that Google is only punishing right-wing websites. Anti-war and socialist websites cop the same treatment. It’s all about silencing dissent on both sides of the political spectrum in favour of “establishment”
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by millsmob 6y ago
This is an interesting point and one could make the argument (based on these subsidies and tax breaks) that all corporate media in the US is a form of state media. The key difference between US corporate media and state media in other cou
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by millsmob 6y ago
"PBS has more than 350 member television stations, many owned by educational institutions, nonprofit groups both independent or affiliated with one particular local public school district or collegiate educational institution, or entit
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by millsmob 6y ago
What is the point of this? This is useless at best and dangerous at worst. I guess nobody from Facebook has ever read Manufacturing Consent... In many countries, the state media is more accurate and less partisan than the corporate media. A
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by millsmob 6y ago
Not an option in rural Australia. My home internet connection (ADSL2 over copper) gets between 1 and 1.5Mbps down on a good day! I plug a 4G USB dongle into a WiFi router. This gets me to about 4 or 5Mbps if the weather is good and I put th