Don’t forget about the fact that a while back they secretly whitelisted Facebook trackers in their adblocker to “make pages run more smoothly” they got a lot of shit for it when people found out looking through the source code. When I heard that they did that it basically cemented in my mind that they were shady and untrustworthy, that’s in addition to the Crypto and rewards stuff.
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See guys, I know people didn’t believe me when I said there are people who push for and encourage for projects to be corporatized instead of community run but here is one of them. These types of garbage arguments always bring up the idea of cybersecurity but always neglect to mention one of the biggest security and privacy threats to the corporate governed model, the corporation itself. Especially once enshittification really sets in.
And before you vomit some horrible misrepresenting argument reminiscent of Dave Plumber’s speech against backdoors in Windows, you know damn well that when I say the company itself is a privacy and security threat to the project that I’m talking about deliberate attempts by the company to make money off the project through tracking, ads, crypto mining, and any other number of shady shit. You know, things that are officially sanctioned.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Interesting new symbols for bathroom doors7·4 months agoFYI this smacks of terf rhetoric, the same nonsense about trans women assaulting people in bathrooms, when unfortunately the reality is that they are more likely to be physically or sexually assaulted.
Also aren’t you the same person who ran !conservativememes2@lemmy.world?
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•Probably the easiest boycott you could do, let's do it Lemmy!71·6 months agoI suggest you add !globalnews@lemmy.zip to the news section. Beehaw isn’t accessible to people on instances they’ve defederated from or instances that have defederated them.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Real-Debrid Implements Extreme Anti-Piracy Filters to Appease Film CompaniesEnglish7·6 months agoYou can still get your money back for it if you payed with a card, it’s not like RD will be useful again. Might as well reclaim the money you just spent on it.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainersEnglish3·7 months agoI would encourage that, but if your instance doesn’t defederate them you may have to go a bit farther since you’ll still get replies from lemmy.ml users, as users are not blocked as part of this functionality. And that is by design, it’s not meant to act as a replacement or alternative to defederation, it’s meant to act as an alternative to blocking all communities on an instance.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•Starter Kit to browse Web in 2024/2025 (Must-have)5·7 months agoJerboa is technically First party. Doesn’t brand itself as the Lemmy app though.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the NetherlandsEnglish142·7 months agoFor Twitter it really doesn’t make sense because it has become undebatably a “Nazi bar”, metaphorically since they aren’t an actual bar, but they still support and tolerate Nazis (and other manners of horrible people). Some people insist that it isn’t and there are “normal level headed people there” but that doesn’t matter, it’s still a Nazi bar, because it accepts and tolerates Nazis. How can someone expect to not be judged for going to and hanging out in a place like that?
The one on the left is a MAGA, they’re unable to listen to logic even if the answer is right in front of them.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokensEnglish391·7 months agoWell right wingers want to ban books and services like IA make that harder since they provide easy access to download or digitally borrow those books. It makes it harder for them to deny people access to those books since they can find them online. Of course, there are other ways people can still obtain those books, IA isn’t the only one, but it’s the easiest and the most convent.
He likes his giant Blåhaj (probaby not an actual Blåhaj)
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being OverEnglish1·7 months agoI had a similar scary situation like that before where the phone number linked to the account wasn’t mine anymore. Luckily I was able to get back because I was still logged in on another computer and it hadn’t kicked me out yet, I was able to go to account settings and remove the phone number, then google let me log into the account again. Had I been kicked out of the account, I would’ve lost it for sure.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Recently-patched Firefox bug exploited against Tor browser users.English2·7 months agoNo he needs a good run through the sandblaster.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Android@lemdro.id•Android Identity Check will secure your phone from even a stolen PINEnglish8·7 months agoIt’ll almost certainly be part of Google Play services. Like their other, more crude, Anti-Theft implementations.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being OverEnglish4·7 months agoYeah and since Online bank accounts can also almost always be reset if you lose the 2FA/MFA key by calling customer support, or going to your bank and speaking with themt in person, there’s almost no risk of losing access completely. It’s a service you have access to because you’re you. Something that isn’t the case with Reddit, Github, Lemmy accounts, or Masotodon. I’m not able to regain access after losing those 2FA solutions by virtue of being myself, they treat you just like the attacker in those cases. Really not worth it there, both since what is being protected isn’t worth it, and the risk far outweighs it.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being OverEnglish132·7 months agoThat’s a great way to lose access if your device gets lost, stolen, or destroyed. Which is why I’m against and will continue to be against forcing 2FA and MFA solutions onto people. I don’t want this, services don’t care if we’re locked out which is why they’re happy to force this shit onto people.
It also does have an API which can be used by apps, including alternate frontends which don’t use JS.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'English18·7 months agoMany of their games do have native linux versions, and a lot do work under wine or proton, which can be used as a Non-steam game in Steam or even without Steam.
Their launcher doesn’t yet have a native linux version but it’s completely optional, and does still run under wine if you really want it.
Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Disappearance of an Internet DomainEnglish41·7 months agoLet’s pretend that the US created the internet as a whole and that it wasn’t created by a joint effort from different actors around the world. That still doesn’t mean they own the internet today like you continue to imply. And consequently means that any group, organization, or country which chooses to deploy alternate DNS Root servers (forked or fully custom) on their own DNS providers is well within the right to do that without needing to build their own internet, and simply use all the non air-gapped infrastructure they have already.
You should also add secretly whitelisted Facebook trackers in their adblocker, something they did a while back.
Yikes I didn’t know they did that but I’m not surprised. There’s a reason the people behind Tor say it should only be used via the official Tor browser, because only the Tor browser can provide that level of protection against those kind s of leaks, as well as much better fingerprinting resistance than chromium-based brave is going to give you.