Greetings to Spain!
To my mind, ‘they’ are going to get hold of your personal information, habits, pecadillos eventually. I don’t have to intentionally make it easy for them.
The lack of engagement by the public at large with the right to privacy; most people seem to have given up, resigned to being completely owned.
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Not really a genie, more of a willo the wisp, but I get it from a bloke called Spider. It’s very more-ish.
Beautiful.
I’ve tried the other way already. Not so good.
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Everyone knows that McDonald’s don’t degrade over time. You can put one in its original bag in the closet for a number of years without problems.
Shame on you for not buying in bulk when the price was more amenable. Get down to your local McDonald’s now and buy yourself at least 57 Big Macs which I’ve calculated to be the optimal amount until global warming renders this planet a cinder. And get me a chocolate milkshake while you’re at it, please.
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Where are you? Brit here.
Feels like we’re fighting a losing battle to people who you simply don’t care about privacy, who use the built in browser of the OS; the default.
Strangely, when I asked them for their home address and peccadillos they always refuse/walk away. They even ask me to turn away when they enter passwords. What’s that about?!
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Some people like to live vicariously through their children. The children become athletes or painters just because their parent wanted to but was thwarted in their attempt.
You’ve got a case of the reverse. Not so widely known of but still a thing.
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I use degooglechrome (flatpak - Fedora) for the moronic sites that are too encumbered with trackers and other shite to ever load on Firefox. In the UK that would be the National Lottery website as an example. If it loads for you, you’re not as privacy conscious as you think.
To me, using Firefox would suggest that you don’t use Chrome for more than the odd few sites because you specifically use Firefox for privacy. That’s because Chrome goes out of its way to remove privacy eg. frustrating uBlock Origin.
I don’t sync bookmarks because I don’t want Google to have them too easily. I’m sure they have them but I didn’t offer them up knowingly.
I’m bound to ask: why do you use Firefox? Unless you’re a dev that has to cover all browsers.
That word is egalitarianism. Ftfy.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/egalitarianism
Sending hugs. We’ve got your back. 😁
My apologies. I was confused why you asked me about the word risk. My bad assumption.
Netflix subscribers might watch: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81927969
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/risk I’m assuming you’re not familiar with the word and English is not your first language.
(I’m tired of typing now) Domestic violence against men is ignored; or the victim is arrested. There are no shelters for men and children in the whole of the UK. Erin pissey, a lovely woman, who came up with the idea for shelters for DV survivors for both sexes was removed from the organisation she started by feminists and now campaigns for DV shelters for men. All of these government money for supporting male victims of DV is given to 'Women’s Aid" after their successful bid years ago. There is still no support for male victims; it doesn’t take a genius to imagine why.
(Others are going to have to help finish these.) Sixty five years after the female pill, there is no male equivalent. Women can opt out of being a mother with abortion, men don’t have the right to opt out of their equivalent. I don’t know a guy who hasn’t been told “you can take the condom off, I’m on the pill” - if he refuses a row ensues. I do know of the sale of positive pregnancy tests, condom mining for semen which is then used to become pregnant and the “on the pill” being a complete lie.
When you have a significant change in the population dynamic, it takes a significant time for the population not (really) effecting this change to adjust.
From my perspective as an old bloke, Women now treat relationships as transactional or have standards that are impossible (for that individual) to achieve; men are reacting in the only way available. There are obviously a number of reasons for the changing in dynamic and I’m not making that statement to judge or analyse; mass change requires motivation. The motivation presented itself.
To my mind society is in the same incredible flux as when the female pill became a real and accessible/allowable thing fifty years ago. Gillick competence case law didn’t happen in the UK until 1985; that’s awfully late to protect young women.
The risks to a man of a long-term relationship significantly outweigh the potential rewards. Being aware of the overwhelming risks and deciding not to engage doesn’t stop one being lonely.
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.” - Robin Williams
Thanks for the dirty ticks reference. That’s going to be fun to read! May give me an idea.
Much of my browsing these days is on account-based web pages and apps, so it’s unavoidable, but I use addy.io to avoid a single email address and try not to enter any identifying data like full name; and use one-time credit cards. I do what I can to minimise anything resembling a tracking file being on my PC for any length of time if it is downloaded at all (pi-hole, uBlock Origin, cookie autodelete, VPN, i2p, blah blah), but it’s a losing battle as we all know.
I’m trying to only interact with LLMs locally, and be generic with my queries for Perplexity (my current fav engine). With LLM being trained on all our data without our agreement, it’s a concern.
OpenAI say that they’re not making a profit on even their pro plan. You know what they say about free services and being the product.