Cheers

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[–] Cheers 93 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This is a bit of a learning experience though.

The big tech companies advocated during 2020 that they were not biased and should not be held responsible for policing the Internet.

Since then, FB swapped to Meta to cover up the documents showing FB is intentionally causing psychological damage our children because it gives them more clicks/view time.

OpenAI scraped the Internet, legally and illegally to power ChatGPT.

Twitter, a social media company known for free speech, was bought by Musk, a former Trump associate. Trump was reinstated during this period and dissent was banned.

Google decided to push web DRM to force us to use their software or else we can't access the Internet.

Sounds like they very much want to police the Internet. We just aren't putting the pieces together in a collective way.

[–] Cheers 81 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Oh fuck. I didn't know this was around the same time. I literally tell everyone about how shit FB is and this proves it 1000x.

If you have a daughter or are a daughter, you should hate meta. They're inspiring a generation of self hating women and they have the data to prove it.

[–] Cheers 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh you mean, oh no, big oil and legacy auto are struggling with the switch to EV.. they need relief money so they can destroy the ecosystem and come up with a 0 emission plan by 2050....

[–] Cheers 12 points 1 year ago

Also remember, Musk served under Trump for a bit. They had differing ideas, and he eventually left, but we already knew who Trump was when he left.

I can imagine him sticking around if Trump wasn't such a cluster.

[–] Cheers 7 points 1 year ago

We do not decide what is right and what is wrong.

But you don't accept our drm do you're wrong.

[–] Cheers 2 points 1 year ago

Also anyone with brains would start reaching out to the old crew to try and bring it back together.

[–] Cheers 0 points 1 year ago

Isn't the argument the other way around? No one would pay for this shit, so we have to bundle it with our better products.

That's kinda like saying we should make phone makers stop bundling chargers because it damages the charger industry..

[–] Cheers 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Android uses USB c and Apple uses lightning. We're on for a long one.

[–] Cheers 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine you're a builder and you build a store (website). People can come into your store through the door or window. WEI will make sure you come through the door just as the builder intended.

At face value, that sounds fine, but now imagine that builder puts a maze (all of the ads littered on a webpage) on the other side of the door. It's a pain in the ass to get through and someone (adblock) has told you about the window that lets you skip the maze. You can get what you want and the store gets to sell a thing. Everyone's happy except the maze builder (Google), so they're trying to force the entire world to go through the maze.

[–] Cheers 1 points 1 year ago

Wealthfront has over 4% on their checking account.

[–] Cheers 9 points 1 year ago

I tend to use a combination of [email protected]

You can increment the +1 to whatever and it'll count as a new email

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