I didn’t think anyone on this platform would be dumb enough to use Google Chrome anyways.
I didn’t think anyone on this platform would be dumb enough to use Google Chrome anyways.
Well I’m not seeing any ads, so I’d say yes
I haven’t used streaming services in a couple of years. Now I’m just doing all piracy and watching it through my Jellyfin server
Well both browsers suck balls, so there’s that.
Better yet, have a de-Google’d phone and don’t connect it to the car. Don’t see why it is “better” not to have one at all.
Yeah, don’t ever connect your phone to your car. It has been proven that they steal all your data.
Honestly, I don’t care much about whether it’s ethical or not. The big corporations that produce a lot of this content is billion-dollar corporations that are trying to shove woke leftist ideologies down our throats (For example Disney). I take pleasure in making them miss out on revenue.
Oh I have nothing against it at all, I just have no interest in watching them lol
Good. I don’t want to see some teenagers doing some dumb dance or whatever is on normie platforms.
Agreed. And when you think about, everything is unproductive, really. You are here for a short period of time, and nothing is productive in the grand scheme of things. How does the universe benefit from what Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates have achieved? Absolutely not at all. The Earth is a speck of dust in the grand scheme of the Universe. Just live life and do whatever you want. Enjoy this weird existence that we somehow all were blessed (and cursed) with. Nobody knows why or how we are even here, so just enjoy it as much as you can, while you can.
I used to feel the same way sometimes, but then I thought about it for a while, and reflected on my own life as well. I see all these people around me that are busy pursuing fancy degrees and high-paying jobs. But at what coast? I thought to myself that following societal norms/expectations does not seem fulfilling or interesting to me at all. Why would I want to do things I don’t enjoy, just because it’s what everybody else is doing? No. I decided not to worry about it, and just do whatever I feel like doing, regardless of what other people think about it. If you enjoy laying in bed all day, reading Lemmy content, and nothing else, then fine. Do it. You are not wasting your life because you don’t do what everybody else is doing. You are wasting your life if you don’t do what you want to do, that’s it.
No thanks. The Fediverse needs to remain anonymous, or at least users need to have the option not to provide any personal information.
Migrate her over to a Federated alternative. No aggressive algorithms here
So what is the most de-googled one?
I am not talking about the posts. Of course those are public, as they should. There’s a big difference between data I willingly put out vs. metadata and the likes.
There’s a huge difference between what I choose to put out in public vs. data that’s being collected on me just by browsing the site. Saying “it’s just the world we live in” is just an excuse to ignore the real issues. It is more crucial now than ever that we create a system that’s by and for the people, not Big Tech and governments.
Anonymity is not the reason why many platforms have turned into “dumpster fires”. Have you checked Facebook lately? People literally use their real names while lighting the whole dumpster on fire. No, privacy is more important now than ever. If I had to list all the ways our data is being used against us nowadays, I would exceed the character allowance on here. The short version is that historically, time periods were named after the materials civilization made their weapons out of (stone age, bronze age, etc.). That’s the reason why the current time period is called the Information Age. Data/information is the biggest weapon we have nowadays, and that’s why it’s critical that we protect it with all means possible if we want to retain our freedom.
Yeah exactly. And I am not an expert in this field either, but of course there’s a solution, one way or another. The purpose of my above comment was simply just to call out the mindset of a lot of the people on here, whom obviously have no clue about FOSS and privacy, but simply just came over from Reddit. We are at war against Big Tech these days. Our privacy is at risk and our data is being used for population control. It is vital that we have projects like the Fediverse that can counter this, but we will only be successful and win this war if we can implement some true privacy.
So you think this is just my problem? No, this is the entire community’s problem. Sticking your head in the sand and pretending like everything is okay is the mindset that has caused so many great freedom-oriented software projects to fail. If you are not on board with creating a better system for the future internet, then why are you even here?
Well I just download more or less everything that comes out lol. It’s like having my own streaming service with thousands if movies and shows available.