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The guy that holds up people for money in the alley is a human too, people forget, and needs to pay for food and a place to live. Of course they do too.
8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
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Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#42So much of what's aimed at nontechnical consumers these days is full of dishonesty and abuse. Microsoft kinda turned Windows into something like this, you need OneDrive "for your protection", new telemetry and ads with every update, etc. In much of the physical world thankfully there's laws and pretty-effective enforcement against people clubbing you on the head and taking your stuff, retail stores selling fake produ…
And still, there is plenty of software that you can't run on anything but Windows. That's a major blocker at this point and projects like 'mono' and 'wine', while extremely impressive, are still not good enough to run that same software on Linux.
Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#43From my experience, Google does not do a thorough app review. Reviewers get maybe a few minutes to review and move on due to the volume of apps awaiting review.
I imagine this would be a great use case for AI helping out?
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#44The company behind this appears to be "real" and incorporated in Delaware. > Urban Cyber Security INC https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5136044 https://www.urbancybersec.com/about-us/ I found two addresses: > 1007 North Orange Street 4th floor Wilmington, DE 19801 US > 510 5th Ave 3rd floor New York, NY 10036 United States and even a phone number: +1 917-690-8380 https://www.manhattan-nyc.com/businesses/urba…
You can get a mailing address and phone number for like $15/mo. You can incorporate a US business for only a couple hundred dollars.
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#45Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
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What sort of argument is that? Just because I need to eat (also let's be real the developers/owners behind this app are not struggling to get food on the table), does excuse me doing unethical/illegal things (and this behaviour is almost certainly illegal in the EU at least).
Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#47I don't understand why so many people are using / trusting VPNs
"Let us handle all your internet traffic.. you can trust us.. we're free!"
No thank you.
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What sort of argument is that? Just because I need to eat (also let's be real the developers/owners behind this app are not struggling to get food on the table), does excuse me doing unethical/illegal things (and this behaviour is almost certainly illegal in the EU at least).
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#49Re: 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
#50I'm glad the extension system isn't broken (e.g. extensions being hacked). This is just scammy extensions to begin with. I've been scared of extensions since they were first offered (I did like useing greasemonkey to customize everything back in the 2000's/2010's), but I can't resist privacy badger and Ublock Origin since they are open source (but even then it's still a risk).