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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Treating phone numbers in contact list with username was a brilliant idea (for the spread of mobile messengers like Whatsapp) but also a very horrible idea (for user privacy and everything else). I can't just change a phone number for privacy. My acquaintances will gladly update them with my name, my old and new number, ready for Zucc to scoop them up in a fucking silver plate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (16 children)

Burner phone to anything that requires communication. Erase metadata of anything that will be shared and uploaded online.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

There was a civilian airplane that mistakenly drifted into Soviet airspace and was shot down back in the 1983, killing everyone on board. Pilots can train for scenarios requiring manual operation, but that doesn't mean they should only rely on human perception, especially when it involves other people's lives.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Same can be said for any field, academic or not. For example, it won't do any good to dismiss cancer awareness campaigns because doctors have been saying about it for decades. It's for the public's benefit, and everyone deserves privacy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Whenever I bring up the issue all I get is blank stares of "how can you not be excited if you work with computers?". I just wanna scream.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'm aware cock.li is for the meme edgelords, but what about purelymail?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Can't wait for it to die and wither out. But I know they will retain a big pool of users on hostage like reddit or fb for a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Just my two cents here to mention that it's necessary to see this as a journey and a mindset, not a single-step or one-size-fits-all panacea.

If she's annoyed of advertisements creeping up, introduce her to adblockers and slowly make her get used to it. If she has shared concerns after seeing her friends or colleagues receive abusive comments on their social media accounts, comment on the dangers of oversharing one's private life and its potential consequences and tangible threats, like medical insurance companies abusing the info, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Force the poor cashier, who's not being paid minimum wage and needs to pay back their loans, to nervously smile at the pissed off customer and beg for mercy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Bless the Revanced guys. They made my mobile youtube binge watches as smooth as my desktop firefox + ublock setup.

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