Securing user data is easy enough if you do not collect it to begin with.

Bingo.

As if de-anonymizing hasn’t been demonstrated, repeatedly.

Hahahaha, you’re funny.

Because people suddenly become altruistic, and won’t try to fuck over the next person?

UBI won’t fix human nature.

I’ve always said this about software. Let me license a specific version, with free minor updates until the next major release.

If the new version has something I need/want, I may be willing to buy it again.

I use lots of old software, on my PC and my phone. It works, why do I need the new version? And some, the new version sucks so bad I refuse to upgrade (FolderSync on Android, for example).

Says who?

Plenty of sites out there just run by people who want to run them, no fee, no ads.

It’s people who want to capitalize on having a website that have this problem.

And let’s be clear, it’s their problem. Not mine. If they can’t turn a profit with/without ads, that’s not my concern, that’s theirs. But they setup these web sites/services with the intention of making money through ads and surveillance, so let’s not go around acting like these orgs just won’t make it without us (there are exceptions, say archive.org, and guess what, people donate to them because they believe in the cause).

The problem is a bunch of people figured out the web was a brilliant way to data mine for profit. I actually had this discussion with a friend circa 1993. If we could see it then, imagine how many other people already had plans.

No ads?

What’s making it personal?

Stop being a sophist, you’ll have more meaningful conversations.

So 31% uses ad blocking.

That’s about 1/3. Pretty impressive actually.

Surveillance advertisement was already around.

Social Media platforms simply capitalized on it.

And users sucked it up for “convenience”.

I see that as a positive.

Oh, you mean real cookies…

Have you solved the issues Syncthing has with Android? Seems Android v9 and later networking blocks the LAN access for finding local relays. Even manually configuring relay IPs in Syncthing doesn’t resolve the issue.

Fuck ads.

You’re lying to yourself if you think ads will ever be delivered without tracking.

This whole “anonymization” nonsense is a lie. It’s been shown, repeatedly, that data can be de-anonymised, especially data that’s not exactly narrowly collected.

Hahaha, because data can never be de-anonymised, right?

Oh, yea, that’s repeatedly been show to not be true.

Didn’t we go through all this like a month ago?

Why are people still excusing Mozilla for this?

Fuck advertisers at this point.

Maybe in 1999 I was still with you, but they’ve continually shown, not just disregard for out concerns, but a flat out “fuck you” malicious adversarialism.

So fuck all advertisers at this point. Every fucking last one of them.

I will block them every way I can. I will poison their tracking. I will do everything I can to fuck with them.

Don’t be an apologist for their bullshit.

And if you bring up the “well websites will cost you then”. That’s a whole lotta not my problem. If you want to host a server, that’s your problem how to pay for it.

I currently pay for my internet, and you want me to subsidize your ads by paying my ISP to deliver those ads.

I also pay for my own VPS, and related services, for stuff I want to do, such as provide some services to family and friends. Should I serve ads to them to subsidize my server costs?

Wish I could upvote more than once.

Well put.

My solution.

Their search results have been shit for about 10 years.

It’s not broken, for google. It does exactly what they want, which is to help them gather data and manipulate people.

At work, we discussed this as a future issue in about 2000, when we saw it gaining major search share.

Lol, did autoincorrect give us “borb”?

“The” Morrissey?

Big chats are kinda a scam anyway, they should be forums lol

That’s the quote of the day right there.