Do you think humans are only capable of disliking one thing at a time?

not new, it has been there forever

Yeah, now we can share all the data with a US big tech platform that will train their AI with our shit, sell it to advertisers, and give the US government access.

Such a good idea.

It's crazy because if they allowed savvy users to cleanly opt out of everything, they'd still make a killing. Smart users who block ads and resist advertising and incentives have never really been a problem for companies. They aren't being targeted for the most part, they just don't want most people getting out of their web.

I also don't fully blame the companies. Consumers not only allowed this, they actively campaigned for it. For every company that has tried to push privacy, the Internet/populace has pushed back. Those of us who care are having to lie in the bed made by the rest because those companies that promoted privacy are starting to learn they have to adapt or survive. 15 years ago we literally had a phone made by a computer company and a phone made by an advertising company, and the right one didn't win... so now it's just following the trends the consumers demanded.

Penalties and fines that have happened for breaking privacy laws has been too low for it to deter any companies making money off this that I don't believe them.

Do you like to ask billionaires for permission everywhere in life, or just when it comes to things you do with your phone?

Yeah protecting their customers is definitely Apple's prime motivation... Wouldn't be about hoovering up even more of their data than the rat finks already do. There is no world in which any of this is pro consumer, it's governments and corporations teaming up to gang rape consumers under the thin veneer of public safety and there are enough apologists out there trying to find some way of reinterpreting this as anything other than what it is. It doesn't make children safe; it gets them accustomed to mass surveillance and data insecurity, it doesn't force porn to become better; it just forces it and its consumers underground, it doesn't stop criminal activities; it just forces them to become more sophisticated. Actual authoritarian governments have struggled to make this shit work, what makes you think governments as bumbling and inept as the US, UK or Australia are going to be able to succeed where they failed?

On the flip side if the goal is to set up direct feeds for the bulk of the population to have their real identity and banking details associated with every online interaction so it's all accessible to the various organisations that want to spy on people, well they are smashing that out of the park.

Anecdotally here in Australia less than 10% of my kids year 8 class lost their social media access, the majority lost it for less than a day... Something like 40-50% of their parents loaded their ID onto various verification sites, which part of our age verification laws do you think were important based on that?

I'm a big headline only kinda guy when I'm just scrolling, but any time I see "corporation says" I know it's the opposite.

They have to legally do it for California, and the UK has similar rules for websites, may as well protect customers by shifting it to their own verification in both cases since it is already implemented

Is there some suggestion that Apple is going to do ID attestation or are they just harvesting ID? Either way the whole thing is slimy. They are a private company choosing to exceed their legal requirements, does anyone think this is for the good of their customers?

Of course they deny! 😂 - We are spying on you, and btw installing adware without you noticing on our monitors, without telling you... we know that could cause you to not trust us, but really, you have to trust us now. Your concerns aren't true! (we don't like to phrase it to straight forward, that could cause legal troubles for the thing we don't do) 😆

I bet they can legally claim "the concerns" "aren't true".

Our concerns "don't matter" to them.

Privacy & safety are now a gated privilege for the social elite & most wealthy.

We all know every device with any way to contact these companies are sending increasingly more information about us, and that info is sold to the highest bidder.

I don't know how much more they could've proved it

KDE Plasma Bigscreen

Then prove it LG and remove the dark patterns from your consent opt-out

The Gamers Nexus video is pretty convincing, and demonstrates the logs and activities they're reporting. The LG response basically admits to half the things GN claimed, yet somehow LG says they're lies. I guess it'll work on people that only read headlines.

They literally advertise the opposite to their advertising network, saying "we know everything that goes on in an LG living room"...

I paused halocard for now, since it does look like it’s paid. That makes me hesitate, but also gives me confidence (that its business model isn’t glorping up all my data).

@moonpiedumplings@programming.dev That's the primary reason we only allow paid customers. Subscription revenue is our business model, selling your transaction history is not.

We started Halocard with cheaper plans but attracted the wrong types of users -- trial farmers, refund abusers and KYC mules.

My team is focussed on building a product that is simple, transparent and privacy-preserving. We also care about having amazing customer service and having revenue allows us to remain independent and deliver on that promise.

If you'd like to try us again, let me know.

We value honest feedback and if something sucks, I'll make sure we fix it.

Founder of Halocard here.

Okay I am trying out Halocard right now. What the actual fuck, it sends the verification code via Whatsapp to the phone number I provide.

SMS verification is no longer required to sign-up. You can (optionally) verify your phone after you create your account and we'll send the code via whatsapp first and then SMS as a fall-back. This is intentional to combat SMS-pumping attacks we've experienced in the past.

Nah not a bot, I think I just put in the wrong comm on the post screen

I don't automate anything really, just tapped into .mls rss feed to fire notifications to my phone for my .ml crossposting campaign. I think I just put in the wrong comm lol