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Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
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Re: Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
#232Re: Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
#233Anyone have tips on how to avoid having the WhatsApp app on your phone?
Give your WA contacts alternative contact method. Uninstall. Stop using WhatsApp.
Try having kids in Europe, everything they do is organized through WhatsApp group chats. I had to get a separate burner phone just for that.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's conversational, emotive, and expressive. I'm sure you hear it all the time out in the real world.
If someone talked to me this way in the real world it would be the last time I would ever interact with them. It’s a Redditism used to express incredulity that the parent commenter could be so stupid as to have posted what they posted. It adds nothing to the conversation and doesn’t belong here.
You're reading a lot into two words there. And someone probably has said "um, what?" to you in the real world; but you wouldn't notice because it is a common pattern of speech.
The internet will be a remarkably combative place if that is the standard you set for when someone calls you stupid - it'd be a lot better to only read that into a statement if it actually gets explicitly said.
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its way less bad than some investors ie on Wall street or arms/military business, by huge margin. Folks scamming old people out of money or encrypting their HDDs for ransom should be shot in sight. But - this topic affects billions very directly, and its not about the effect now , but helping general direction which is outright evil by any moral standards. I can pull out usual godwin's law plug but I guess we all kno…
The arms business seems more honest really, and arguably hurts society less, especially in peace time.
Buy they very actively push and lobby to end those peaceful times, ie second Iraq invasion for completely made up reasons, or stay in Afghanistan way beyond anything reasonable, when it was clear there is no winning possible.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe even a "start using Internet Explorer again" movement ;-) For all the hate it got, IE was nowhere near as privacy-invasive as any of the "modern" browsers now, even Firefox. If you configured it to open with a blank page, it would quietly do so and make zero unsolicited network requests.
Well IE (Edge) is Chrome now under the covers.
Your mixing things up Edge and IE are two completely different things
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#237I don’t know anyone that works at Meta, so I’m hoping that someone here could answer this for me- What makes employees there feel good (or at least okay) about doing stuff like this? You're spying on people, no? Surveilling ordinary people, not enemy combatants or foreign militaries? Perhaps a friend of a friend or even a family member? This kind of thing is so creepy and disturbing to me, not that it’s anything new…
Generally employees put the responsibility on management. As everyone has a higher up they answer to, no one feels personally responsible. From the top down, the concerns of how things are actually implemented are often too abstract. Combine these dynamics with institutional echochambers and group-think. Employees just want to make it to the weekend. Execs want to hit their targets. Sales dept. needs their bonuses. T…
Yes. Was my same first thought. Same thing that happened in Germany:
"The banality of evil" how Hannah Arendt described Adolf Eichmann's excuse that he didn't bare any responsibility since he was just doing his job...
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
Brave has some controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...
I mean those aren't real controversies though, it's more like "we added a VPN feature and included the VPN, but have now removed it". A real controversy would be like Mozilla who was pushing for censorship and silencing "bad actors" in the years after the first Trump election.
What?
"This includes bringing new users to Binance & other exchanges via opt-in trading widgets/other UX that preserves privacy prior to opt-in. It includes search revenue deals, as all major browsers do."
Seems pretty relevant to the current topic and not part of the VPN controversy.