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I’ve always known SI to refer to Self Injury but I’m in Australia so this could be a regional difference.

“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…

Ads serve capital, they do not serve me.

I guess that automatically disqualifies it then. A 39 year old economic anthropologist couldn’t possibly know anything that I don’t already know. It’s crazy to take different point…

Did I just have a stroke?

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 mes…

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 Goog…

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) gov…

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…

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 a…

Facebook is an authoritarian regime.

The Atlantic Council and NATO for a start.

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 sid…

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 differen…

"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 d…

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…

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 get…