Most people will never question Google or Meta's data harvesting while using their apps, but I'm sure you know this already.
The issue with offering me money directly for personal information is that I'd immediately nope away because that sounds like a scam or something malicious.
"Personal data" is something very abstract and most people have little to no idea what it means to give it away. Nowadays it's getting harder and harder to limit what's being shared so even those that have a vague understanding of what it means may not care too much.
I don't have social media accounts and I've been using VPNs nonstop for the last 10 years. Degoogled, Firefox, uBlock Origin, PiHole, etc. I got used to this, but it's a balancing act. I don't self host. I'm forced to use Windows at work. Credit card for groceries and stuff.
It's incredibly weird to think how easy it is to create a behavior profile of the average joe. It's unsettling to imagine companies like Meta and Google have decade's worth of data on people.
As you said, they shouldn't share that, but they do. And in places with no way to have that data "erased", some people will have an unfathomable amount of information about them harvested throughout their whole life.
Even if that data is never used for anything malicious, it's still disturbing.
The oviraptorosaur legs enabled the team to identify the prey as Citipes elegans [...]
Gorgosaurus probably “dismembered the small prey, swallowed the legs and left the rest of the body out there,” Therrien says. He suggests these legs may have been “the meatiest part” of the animal and wonders, with a laugh, if perhaps this Gorgosaurus “didn’t want to be bothered having to cough up some feathers.”
“With the discovery of this remarkable specimen, we have direct, irrefutable evidence of not only what this species was snacking on,” Zanno says, “but the gory details of how it went about it.”
Atoms are just tiny planets. Yes, it's planets all the way down!
It wasn’t until they ported about 70% of Skyrim Together’s revered code to the Starfield project, though, that they bumped into a problem: “This game is fucking trash.”
“I didn't realize this until after I actually started playing the damn game a week after launch,” they say. “The game is boring, bland, and the main draw of Bethesda games, exploration in a lively and handcrafted world, was completely gone.
The modder started working on it before playing the game. It's kind of funny in a way, but also cool that they wanted to give people multiplayer ASAP.
I did a quick search and found this: https://www.europol.europa.eu/report-a-crime/report-illegal-content-on-the-internet
Not sure how helpful that can be. You should report it to the FBI just in case. They may be able to pass that information along to the Interpol or something.
"I'm a free speech absolutist. I believe my words are absolute"
Ira vehementi. Estuans interius Ira vehementi...
Just because the dude wants to rule as God on earth doesn't mean you can't have a nuanced, neutral view on him! /s
What a handsome little fella. They seem comfortable and relaxed already! Congrats on being adopted, OP!
No mobile tem o Bromite, um navegador chromium open-source muito bom que foca em privacidade. Já pro PC, da pra tentar fazer spoofing no Firefox pro site achar que é o Chrome. Talvez ajude, talvez não, mas vale a pena testar antes de trocar de navegador.
Por sorte nunca dei de cara com nenhum site muito quebrado no Firefox apesar de usar uma configuração bem chatinha com um monte de coisa desativada.
Add-on de fazer spoofing de user-agent: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/
Goddamn, that's a lot of caffeine on a lemonade, wth