That seems weird to me because I’ve never used stuff like twitter or instagram to have a public facing profile to talk to friends.
Stuff like discord or whatsapp made more sense for that which isn’t great either. But, the concept of using public profiles and public posts between people you actually know sketched me out. That’s something I’ve opted out of doing despite giving into stuff like discord.
This seems overly simplistic focusing on the positive and choosing to omit info that could shed doubt on Andy.
She left the FTC in 2014 and worked 4 years at the Internet Association lobbying group which the EFF opposed.
The group claims that surveillance-based advertising technology, which slurps up and broadly spreads consumers’ personal data without their knowledge, should be exempted from the CCPA.
Even if someone had a past that was good. Choosing to then work to weaken privacy on behalf of lobby group that represented companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook should have normal privacy focused companies like Proton hesitate to make public endorsements of a person with conflicting history. What other privacy companies even bothered to make that type of endorsement?
Andy’s support was also not only her, but his support of JD Vance with ties to Peter Thiel/Palantir and Republicans was under the public cloud of Epstein allegations, global tariff threats, threats of removing checks and balances with Project 2025, intention to ignore courts, and aligning with tech billionaires like Elon with questionable spying allegations and discrimination at Tesla. Most PR companies would have recommended not touching the subject matter if not necessary to do so.
Even Mullvad and Brave didn’t make political endorsements through the company, so it takes someone with a really strong alignment with a group to make an unprompted company endorsement and not a personal one.
You aren’t getting the point. There’s useful communities even on Facebook, but the overall demographic is tech and privacy illiterate which results in companies being able to get away with the things they do.
Somehow you extrapolated that to mean reddit has no valuable subreddits. When I never said that.
And why do you use words like cope? Coping about what? If you look at my past comments you see I often recommend people to use redlib instances to use reddit in contrast to people asking to completely stop.
Seems you are the one upset at criticism over reddit and hallucinating a criticism to mean I don’t find reddit useful.
That’s why you don’t delete your account. You rewrite then delete and keep your account to monitor it.
Either way, it is new content that people mostly use reddit for that is keeping the site alive.
You misunderstood what I am saying. I’m talking about the general users of reddit and the most popular subreddits that are basically twitter and facebook topics.
Niche subs are still useful, but the masses are what has made reddit worse because they are the largest userbase that willingly puts up with all the reddit changes. So everyone else gets dragged along.
There is a reason long time reddit users stay away from /r/all and stick to their subscribed subreddits.
I didn’t even talk about leaving reddit, but about the shifting demographic as the userbase grew.
You can tell reddit got dumber because of posts complaining about ads, which is the bare minimum level needed for tech literacy.
Which is why reddit has turned into being reposts of twitter, tiktok, and facebook as the general userbase became the bulk of the audience and biggest sign is the anti science demographic sharing the space that amazes you that they can even type.
It’s also why reddit has been able to get away with their changes.
This is a good reason to delete posts and stop contributing to reddit.
If people want old info they can use old archives that harvested all the content. It’s easy accessibility of content that has led to people putting up with reddit becoming anti user removing third party apps, making UI worse, and login requirements.
If using reddit just lurk and delete content. Don’t contribute.
Yep, I remember that was what caused me to stop watching LTT after they decided to keep promoting them due to trust is such a big part of VPNs. Convinced me none if their opinions are worth listening to and they are modern day infomercials.
Just get a minipc and wireless keyboard. It’s less of a headache than trying to make a smart tv not a privacy nightmare with how you can’t even replace the TV OS for most of them like you can for some phones. They aren’t worth connecting to the internet if you care about privacy.
I’m more concerned about cameras than being overheard what I’m saying, and not like its easy to disconnect audio than it is to cover a camera.
I don’t trust the camera to be 100% foolproof so I also stick something on the front of my laptop camera. For my phone I 3d printed a clip that snaps on and fits on top of my case.
Something like this but for my case.
https://makerworld.com/en/models/990796-iphone-front-camera-cover-certain-cases
Googly eye design on top would be funny.
I’d get rid of the instagram account if that is the case with how much habits are tracked just from browser activity like what you click, how much you scroll, what topics interest you, which profiles you visit most, like, etc. I used to have one too.
Whatsapp is the one that is hard to get away from with it falling more into essential service due to network effect while instagram is an optional supplemental social media.
Do you really need facebook and instagram? I think using whatsapp is enough for people to reach you, so at least cutting down number of meta services would be good.
I personally don’t see getting instagram feeds or facebook feeds as vital, since being reachable and being able to chat is more important while reels and pics is whatever. And those who use Instagram and facebook probably have whatsapp, so they can dm you there.
You can use a foss alternative like keepassxc to set up a passkey so you control the file instead of trusting it to Apple.
What is the difference from two factor with aegis + random generated password with keepassxc, and passkey saved on keepassxc.
Used Thinkpads have been my laptop of choice.
Still would be nice to have an option straight from Firefox available.
I don’t have a problem with Origin, since Firefox stripped of telemetry, ai, and sponsorships is something I’d be happy to pay a one time fee for even if I can disable it.
Having everything stripped from the installer by default from the official source is nice, and lot of projects don’t get funding from most users. So offering something like this seems fine with me.
I think boomers were more PC literate which is pretty sad, since they at least knew how to navigate a desktop, folders, and files to some degree.
I think phone or tablet OS is what most people after are used to, so if trying to navigate actual file systems mistakes like not recognizing exe files can happen.
Technology got to a point where it is so accessible the basics are forgotten.
I just feel it is more secure to keep it entirely to message apps when it comes to communicating with people you know.
Think that’s why I’ve never seen social media like twitter as vital enough to go through the trouble of verifying.
Figure Elon is the type of guy to read through everyones private messages too, so that’s another reason.