Ever notice how any time a Chinese app gets highlighted as being for data harvesting, there’s a bunch of people crawling out of the woodwork to claim “whatabout american apps!?”, but whenever an American app gets the same exposer, noone ever goes “whatabout Chinese apps apps!?”

Highly personalized, targeted ads are more dangerous because they can create tailor made political ads. This was happening with Cambridge Analytica and it’s why having any political discussion online is impossible anymore because you’re never really sure what the other person “knows” anymore. Before that shit, everyone got the same speeches, news and ads.

You also have the blackmail factor. I do consider Chinese officials getting blackmail material on American politicians and businesses more dangerous then American companies doing the same. It’s a small margin, but there is a difference.

The best I can do is minimize how much they get from me, give them bad data and block any ads. The few times I see targeted ads seems to imply they think I’m a conservative woman. Who the hell else would want Concern Carry Yoga Pants?

These data harvesting creating fake profiles to sell to ad companies are not my concern. Let these shit companies cheat each other.

Considering the few times I’ve seen targeted ads, it’s never actually relevant to me, I doubt their profile of me is in anyway accurate.

I use blockers so facebook doesn’t know what websites I’m visiting.

And if I don’t use facebook?

Wish people cared this much when Epic shutdown the servers for the Unreal Tournament games.

2024? Not Bush II? Full blown fascism has just been on the back burner for a long time.

Deep State. They’ll blame it on the deep state or “Biden Overhang” or some shit. They’ll always shift the blame and use that anger to bolster their position.

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Missing the bot comments that don’t reference anything specific in the original post. Sometimes they reference the title, but not the content.

So you’re liberal until it inconveniences you?

How about instead of outlawing homelessness, we created a housing system for them. Then we can talk about moving them out of parks.

Talk is cheap. It’s very easy for him to say these thing. It’s much harder for him to do anything about it.

On the other hand, he could do something about the child exploitation that’s going on in his church.

True. The concept is a bit too complex for his brain to handle.

Has anyone tried getting linux to run on a mechanical computer?

You get what you fucking deserve.

There are a lot of reasons to not like Thatcher that have nothing to do with her being a woman.

They don’t make electric Kei trucks though.

Wasn’t that a reference to Thatcher? Not women in general.

I believe him.

Money and connections.

He believes his own lies? Not that surprising really.

Yes, that also works in Windows and Mac. When I still dual booted Windows, I gave up on anti-viruses and just didn’t download suspicious things and used Firefox with all the regular blockers. Never had a problem.