I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every...
Doesn’t have anything to do with Microsoft and Apple’s market share on PC which is what I was thinking of.
Besides, it wasn’t like I was saying Google’s mobile telemetry is less invasive on Android, where they compete with Apple for being as creepy as possible. IIRC windows phones haven’t taken off
What you’re able to request from these companies officially is just the tip of the iceberg. The point is that between phone numbers, email reuse, google analytics etc with fingerprinting, and operating system telemetry, a complete picture is assembled of users.
If you’re not looking for arguments and instead approaching things from understanding surveillance maybe my statements will make sense now.
Apple is only promoting themselves as a privacy company to try to get VPN customers to move to their iCloud plus and shit. It’s like Micro$oft moving into open source. I really don’t think it’s ever wise to take a company’s philosophy seriously it’s just a way to manage customer and employee expectations temporarily.
Apple is still an ad company they just want to cordon off their “private ad system” with their VPN products and hide my email shit. Don’t trust Apple at all myself
Lol? Way to discredit yourself as a clueless fucking rube. “I work in the industry and I take everything my employer says at face value” is not going to convince me bucko.
Why don’t you start talking about Apple’s third party ad service servers if you think you know where all the data is going? They leak everything even if they don’t officially retain stuff. It’s all theatre for employees and regulators and the EU.
I can’t wait for libs to latch on to the term shadow banking and render it meaningless
Anne Pettifor is a bit of a lib but she has some good writing on it. She named her substack something forgettable like System Change tho so i always scroll past her rss feed
Bakhmut is stalling, vatnik scum. Russia is winning too slowl- W-wait! I changed my mind! We were stabbed in the back! In America, artillery shell and Patriot missiles grow on trees. They must be hiding more! What is that sound? Oh fu-
I think some banks utilize some feature built in PDF Readers to PREVENT printing of “SENSITIVE” information in a PDF, by blocking parts with black bars....
A very useful comeback to being called an egg. Decided to share it, as it can be quite useful to GNC and possibly even trans people who find themselves in this situation....
I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me
I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every...
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Photo from Kathy Hicks...
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‘It’s legalised robbery’: anger grows at China’s struggling shadow banks (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/HMgkv...
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How can I safely share image/GIF?
I want to share a picture or GIF with my friend on Telegram, but I don’t want to do it directly. What can I use?
The weapons deficit is "artificial" (because Ukraine should have more 🤯) says Zelensky (apnews.com)
How is the deficit artificial? If you read realist military gossip, we’re being strained heavily especially on air defense supplies.
Can’t decide between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti’s new app lets you post to all three (techcrunch.com)
Under what SPECIFIC feature (in e.g. Firefox and Chrome) is this automatic obfuscation implemented when printing a PDF? And how to remove it from the file? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I think some banks utilize some feature built in PDF Readers to PREVENT printing of “SENSITIVE” information in a PDF, by blocking parts with black bars....
How to parry being called or referred to as an egg (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
A very useful comeback to being called an egg. Decided to share it, as it can be quite useful to GNC and possibly even trans people who find themselves in this situation....
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Pretty much in the title. Maybe you wouldn’t even use it, but would like to simply see it exist for the sake of having a federated alternative....