If your bored enjoy this rabbit hole. So, couple years ago I tried the online dating thing. I was speaking with someone that shared some of the same interests, one of them being memes. She sent me this exact meme and said that she drew it for a friend. They didn't realize you could look up the history of said memes. I did the right thing and kept that bit to my self so she couldn't use that information against the next dude. The history of said meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/aww-yiss
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joined 1 year ago
Personal Computer (80-90s)
Doom 2 - Spent my childhood on dial up playing other friends over the modem. Up all hours of the night using chainsaws and rockets. Late 90s when Duke Nukem came out, It was the first game I drove immediately to the store and purchased. Back in the day when you bought the box and had to take it home and install it. Thought it was leading edge and funny as hell. To be fair it was at the time. Today that information is tracked. I'd like to know how many thousands of hours I spent on this game. But it was hilarious and late fun filled nights.
Today I buy 2-3 games per decade. But still game for a majority of my entertainment. One of the benefits of being an old gamer is that if you build a new system today it can play everything from the 70s to 2023 at a minimal. Toss in Emulation for other consoles in there you really have a plethora of choices, 4 decades worth to be specific. All of which contain no tracking, no always online, no micro-transactions. As gaming was intended! Really hard to find something that checks those boxes, about 2-3 titles per decade worth purchasing.
Playing HorizonFFXI currently. Used to play it retail from 2003-2007. Been pretty chill and relaxing so far. Also play a lot of Kenshi. Very hard to find games without monetization. Thus I only play really old stuff.
Once Reddit is public all that information that has been collected about those users will be sold. The price of Reddit is going to require a lot of capital to purchase. Companies with that level of capital have policies and rules in place with third-party requirements like Insurance that must follow strict guidelines on how they operate. Reddit will change overnight as a result of the purchaser’s personal interest. Much like the experience now being strong armed so a handful of people can capitalize (what this is whole thing is about).
Careful what you post on reddit, 10 years from now it could be sold to party ready to upload it to your social score, excellent business model to extort people freely putting things in writing. Or whatever social uproar is going on at the time you will be categorized, monitored, and exploited. No one’s fault but your own. If they want to stay, that's the investment.
You can use VPN, Tor and all the tools you like. If you are using an app nothing you post is anonymous, both app stores get a copy of your information from the applications, you agreed to it (go read the terms you agreed too).
Using a computer, you have VPN and third-party browsers. But statistics show most people use something like Google Chrome browser and all the data is correlated at the end, they will even save their username and passwords to the cloud giving the purchaser of that data or hacker the exact sign in information.
Big spender, no one wants to invest in people. Now with A.I to parse the data collected to flag any information that might be worth value, they can stream line it like a dating site that just flips a few switches to give/take access and features while recording all aspects of your life.
I would not be mad at the people that stayed, they are going to pay in the future more then they have ever imagined.