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  1. Comment on Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines in ~tech

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    Sweden has proved itself to be a legitimately very pro-privacy place in our world. It's one of the few places that have done decent work regarding individual privacy and have strict laws they...

    Sweden has proved itself to be a legitimately very pro-privacy place in our world. It's one of the few places that have done decent work regarding individual privacy and have strict laws they actually adhere to. Now... as for Google Analytics, it's literally Google's forte on which they have the capacity to infringe and bypass whatever they'd like for whatever use they'd desire, of course they have these sort of capabilities and sadly, it'll be a long ways away,if ever, for them to fall. Stay away from anything Google, please

    2 votes

  2. Comment on The main problem with the Fediverse is that people mostly just use it to talk about the Fediverse in ~tech

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    In my opinion, you'll only get the best experience if you like what you see on your local and connected instances(on my version of fediverse, they call these Bubble timelines), then you find good...

    In my opinion, you'll only get the best experience if you like what you see on your local and connected instances(on my version of fediverse, they call these Bubble timelines), then you find good people to follow there. From there, what they boost and their follower lists are will help build up a feed of people in similar interests as you. This is the main way that works for all of the fediverse services and is the most reliable rather than hashtag following or curator accounts. If your instance is full of people who simply meta post, switch to a different server, or even a different activitypub service entirely

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Meta is launching Threads, an app to rival Twitter in ~tech

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    Overall, it seems like they're just capitalizing on Twitter's downfall and I think they'll get a decent amount of steam into it but it'll die off after three years or so. Aside that, I've yet to...

    Overall, it seems like they're just capitalizing on Twitter's downfall and I think they'll get a decent amount of steam into it but it'll die off after three years or so. Aside that, I've yet to hear of the fediverse integration they've apparently integrated(which is great, the farther I am from Meta, the better)

  4. Comment on By selectively breeding forty generations of silver fox over the course of sixty years, researchers managed to make them as friendly as dogs in ~science

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    So you're telling me now I have the choice of foxes for a pet that won't suck as well? Hell yeah, I'm a fox lifer

    So you're telling me now I have the choice of foxes for a pet that won't suck as well? Hell yeah, I'm a fox lifer

    6 votes

  5. Comment on Help me decide on moving from android chrome to a more privacy friendly browser in ~comp

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    I personally am much a Firefox fan rather than a Brave fan, but the mobile gecko engine has no site isolation or isolatedProcess which depending on your stance, is one of the biggest cons for a...

    I personally am much a Firefox fan rather than a Brave fan, but the mobile gecko engine has no site isolation or isolatedProcess which depending on your stance, is one of the biggest cons for a browser, no sandboxing of processes.

    I'd definitely still use Firefox on desktop any day of the year lol

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Criminalization of encryption: The 8 December case in ~tech

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    Wow, it's always been a hasty excuse on blanket banning privacy protections by claiming a small easily detectable minority. Fun fact: Getting away from malware, keylogging, or metadata collection...

    Wow, it's always been a hasty excuse on blanket banning privacy protections by claiming a small easily detectable minority. Fun fact: Getting away from malware, keylogging, or metadata collection does not immediately equate to breaking the law

    5 votes

  7. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life

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    I used to wear slippers in my house. A time in a studio type apartment made me get used to barefoot, my muscle memory is out of it. Never went with shoes in house, that's be a bit unhygenic(got my...

    I used to wear slippers in my house. A time in a studio type apartment made me get used to barefoot, my muscle memory is out of it. Never went with shoes in house, that's be a bit unhygenic(got my cousin sprawling around)

  8. Comment on Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match in ~tech

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    Had a joke ready, then read the article. Wow. I'll be pirating it if they really go for it lmao(they won't)

    Had a joke ready, then read the article. Wow. I'll be pirating it if they really go for it lmao(they won't)

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Spotify’s podcast plan is going off the rails in ~tech

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    As it honestly deserves to. It was home to a platform which had no restrictions for harmful misinformation and shoved it down people's throats no matter what. I can see some benefits of Spotify...

    As it honestly deserves to. It was home to a platform which had no restrictions for harmful misinformation and shoved it down people's throats no matter what. I can see some benefits of Spotify like some songs being released there, but downloading outside of a commercial app has its perks too, this little fiasco being a good example

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Thoughts on making Tildes groups more independent in ~tildes.official

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    What about... let's say. Each group can have subtopics once the subtopic's community that are vouching for it prove they have enough trustworthiness and audience. These subtopics will only be...

    What about... let's say. Each group can have subtopics once the subtopic's community that are vouching for it prove they have enough trustworthiness and audience. These subtopics will only be added manually and will be in still general tones like let's say ~games will have |game-announcements and |community-game-help. The group's default showing on homepage will show non-subgroup stuff, going into the group, you can filter posts by everything, non subgroupped(default), or specific subgroup of choice. This could open up segmentation of more niche topics that don't really have a choice to grow much because of an audience too niche to warrant a group yet with a decently large community. If they prove to have quality that can be appreciated by many, they can be upgraded into the main tilde and now can be seen on homepage. Obviously, this idea should be looked upon with caution, we don't want to overcomplicate things much but since it's helping to segment and grow smaller communities and you're still in charge what gets implemented, we could make it vague enough to make it decently open to outsiders so that they get the general gist of the idea and allow even the smaller communities here.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Why America is addicted to cars - a casual exploration of public transit in North America in ~transport

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    I honestly like how many European countries do their cities a lot more. It's a decent deal less centralized, less focused on compacting everything to a small microcosm, and is usually open with...

    I honestly like how many European countries do their cities a lot more. It's a decent deal less centralized, less focused on compacting everything to a small microcosm, and is usually open with nature(and if not, they likely expend less environmental waste). America made their cities that way because they wanted to focus on marketing and incentivizing cars for the future generations. And it worked, far, far too well.

    2 votes