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It added that the privacy tool “particularly penalized smaller publishers,” as they depend to a large extent on the collection of third-party data to fund their businesses.
If your business depends on collecting the private data of users to sell to other companies, then you don’t deserve to exist as a business. I don’t care if these are the “little guys”, the entire ad business is a parasitical industry.
Google is the only sure way right now.
You heard it right here on Privacy Guides, ladies and gents!
I’m an anarchist. You know, the kind of person who actually fights for civil rights, while your lot sits at home sipping wine and wondering why the poors are getting so uppity.
You better hope not. Cause if that’s true, then judging from the downvotes you’re getting, people would like something an AI said more than an allegedly intelligent human. But, you swing for the fruit you’re intellectually capable of reaching, I suppose.
Isn’t it brunch time somewhere in the world? Why don’t you go do some sort of performative milquetoast protest and leave the discussion to the adults?
That’s a straw man. I didn’t say the party wasn’t full of fascists, I said not all of them are nazis. Just stop already, you’re embarrassing yourself if you have to invent things I said because you don’t have a good response to what I did say.
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard all week, congratulations. You’re insinuating that all Republicans are nazis, for one. It leads me to wonder if you were dropped on you head a little too much as a child. I could go on and point out further problems with your post, but if you’re calling everyone who disagrees with you a nazi, I honestly doubt you’re the sort of person to be willing or able to think critically about what you read, so why bother.
He’s not a nazi sympathizer, stop being ridiculous. And he has never once said he would give your data to the US government, Trump admin or not. You’re just straight up lying.
You and everyone like you are overly dramatic, terminally online chronic posters, making mountains out of molehills because you thrive on controversy and need something new each week to be outraged about.
That’s childish, petulant nonsense, especially since that would be illegal under Swiss law, even if this law is amended. Not to mention, it isn’t Andy Yen who gets to decide that anyway. It’s the board of directors, of which Tim motherfucking Berners-Lee is a member. You know, father of the World Wide Web.
No, it doesn’t. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Kid, you’ve no fucking idea what I know, so stop with this adolescent shit. Your whole post is nothing more than you saying “nuh uh” to everything I wrote. If you’re going to argue about stuff, at least take the time to actually be fucking informed about what you’re talking about. I’ve been jailbreaking iPhones and taking apart Android since before you were old enough to even know what XDA is.
Android may be created by an advertising company but they also give you the ability to run whatever OS you want and strip it of Google’s proprietary software completely. These days you can install OS like Graphene by simply plugging in your phone and clicking buttons in your browser.
This is patently untrue, and a total misrepresentation of the facts. You can install other OSes on a rather small list of Android phones. Furthermore, while the user might just be clicking a few buttons, behind the scenes those buttons put into play a rather complex series of actions that break the protections put into place by Google and phone manufacturers to stop you from doing exactly that.
Saying that Google gives you the ability to install other OSes is like saying Sony gives you the ability to install other OSes on the Playstation. It isn’t true, Google never gave you that ability, the technical wizardry of white hat hackers did.
Assuming for arguments sake that they do, which corporation do you think should get a better grade when privacy is the concern?
Apple, which has gone to court time and again to protect the privacy and security of their product, and leaked that a western government ordered them to backdoor their product when they were ordered not to reveal that, or Google, an advertising giant that uses every tool that having one of the largest mobile OSes on the planet gives them to not only invade that privacy, but to sell it to everyone with money, and give access away to the US government before they even demand it?
Well, I don’t see Google protesting when they’re forced to compromise privacy or security by governments. And we sure as hell wouldn’t see Google leak a secret order to backdoor their products that they were forbidden from revealing.
They aren’t great, but they sure as hell aren’t anywhere as bad as Google, and anyone that argues otherwise is either incredibly misinformed on the topic, or doing so in bad faith.
I’ll leave it to you to decide where you fit into that.
I would argue that, out of the two smartphone OSes available, iOS is the better choice for most people. They’ve done far more than Google at making sure nobody (even them), can access your data without your permission by putting encryption into a lot of their services.
In contrast, Google wants, and gets, access to everything about your life. And they’re more than willing to share that data with the government, or anyone that will pay them. And while the best option would be deGoogled Android, that’s something that most people aren’t going to be willing to use, even if they’re wising up to the need to take privacy seriously.
Privacy isn’t an all-or-nothing. Usually it’s better for each person to consider if they really need fully secure, or if a iPhone that does far more than the bare minimum at protecting their privacy is enough for them
It’s getting harder and harder to tell without looking at the comm which stories are Onions or not.
I’ve met bigfoot, he’s definitely real. I don’t have any evidence, you just gotta trust me, bro. I’m a random person on the internet, I couldn’t possibly be full of shit.
And my point is that you’ve totally misunderstood their viewpoint. They don’t see Trump as the government, and I would have assumed that the whole “deep state” bullshit would have clued you in to that fact. To them, Trump isn’t part of the government, he’s the one tackling the government as their hero.
Yes, when you have the majority in both houses and hold the presidency, that’s control, you absolute buffoon. Now do you want to open your mouth again, or do you figure you’ve embarrassed yourself enough for one thread? Honestly, how you even manage to tie your damn shoes is beyond me, because it’s obvious from your barely put together sentences that you have the intellectual capacity of a rather large moss-covered rock.
That wasn’t my argument, but nice job avoiding it.
I don’t think you need to train a dog to be a dog, you could probably just let them manage it on their own.