• itsathursday@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I wish I could packet sniff or monitor what apps are doing what on my phone. If I install a calculator, I only want it to math some numbers, not harvest data from me.

    Apple is supposed to mention this in the App Store but even then it’s just a tag on an app and there’s no more details.

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    26 days ago

    Don’t use Tiktok. But also, don’t use any social media run by large corporations. You’re better than that.

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      26 days ago

      Also I really wish someone would start a non-profit driven dating/hookup app. Grindr is a perfect example of full enshittification, keeping users on the platform as long as possible, needing paid accounts to do anything at all. The world is in a loneliness crisis, we could be using this tech to actually fix it, instead the tech exacerbates the problem to get ad views.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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    26 days ago

    a little reminder that trump’s bringing in a lot of reactionary doom and gloom, and the solution is revolutionary optimism. seriously!

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    26 days ago

    In this day and age with greedy billionaires everywhere doing a bunch of heinous bullshit just assume you are being watched all of the time.

  • BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip
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    26 days ago

    Soon this data will be collected by far-right oligarchs like Larry Ellison through Oracle. We really need a huge push to urge everyone to stop using TikTok.