FriendBesto

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[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Caring for your Privacy and the general privacy of society in the aggregate, given the increasing data mining, collecting, advertising and other trends is the normal mindset.

Getting propagandised and brainwashed into thinking that paying, with your own money for literal microphoned devices operated by for-profit-focused Corps that will listen in and record you so as to give you lazy weather updates or help you play a song, or purchase knick-knacks online in exchanhe is the crazy take.

Getting you to feel ackward is the point of peer-pressure and their Marketing. Just ignore it. You are not in the wrong.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Albeit Lemmy can too be a bit of an echo chamber at times, I find, in general, that the platform as a whole is way more open minded, and by extention, its users too, than or over Reddit.

Which their bias on most subs and janny overreach became, specially in the last few years suffocatingly annoying. Coming here was refreshing in comparison.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Gradually? By 10's launch, it was already adware/spyware. 11 is not even attempting to hide it, if you look at it objectively past the PR.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Not a fix but having Mozilla coded PWAs could help a bit. Rather than 3rd party.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Vertical Tabs are in the Nightly build, already. It is a very rudimentary implementation, still. Personally, I use Sideberry though.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Not a hot take. Most regular end users are lazy, not tech savvy, or do not care. Not meant as an insult, it is just reality. I used to be a SysAdmin and this was always the case. This is why IE got big, and why Chrome and Google Search got big and to a larger extend why Apple's offering got big in their ecosystem.

Google trying to kill adblockers Barbara Streisand Effect them into the spotlight, magnitudes more than their own existence had merited to most average users in the last 15+ years, at least in the USA.

And even now, I still know tons of end users who do not use adblockers.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago
[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hmm.... How do you find it? If you do not mind me asking.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Ivdea Delenda Est

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

"It is what it is."

It is lazy, circular, a cop out and means next to nothing. Vague enough to pass as a wise quip, to some. It is not.

Also not so much a saying per sé, but people who use quotes of famous people at the bottom or ends of emails. As if that implies a personality. If you are going to use something you think sounds smart, at least try to come up with that something yourself.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whether people read as a hobby or not. As it implies a type of interest into the world around them.

And as a lesser second, what they read.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

The fact Dick Cheney, a war criminal along with Bush Jr. and her 'graciously' accepting of it, is not sending massive warning horns and bells to the average Dem, OE to her own campaign should be enough to see they have lost their own plot. They are out of touch and just screaming, orange man bad, does not fix their own problems. Many people are not enough of a blind ideologues to not see that.

They are pushing for Trump's border wall. Like come on.

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