I’m saying that the big corporations have such a strong foothold that I personally don’t think we will ever be able to properly regulate them when they can pay off all of the politicians. I’m not trying to be a doomer, those are just my beliefs.

I agree. I don’t think screen time limits are adequate.

I wish we had a job market where you wouldn’t feel like you can’t express your values because you could just go work at a competitor if you got fired for it.

Alright I understand your perspective now and agree.

Steamrip.com is starred on fmhy.net, I trust it. I’ve used it many times with no problems.

That’s rough, I wish you guys got some more say.

Then the big companies will just operate under multiple names to commit tax evasion like they already do and pay off the politicians to let them.

The people who came up with this idea were thinking, “How can we profit off of our “customers” even after they die?” The engineers were thinking, “I don’t want to lose my job.”

You don’t need to know how to use social media to set up the Apple parental controls that put time restrictions on certain apps.

I don’t understand how it correlates. The article isn’t saying that children of parents who use social media are more likely to be addicted to social media, it’s saying that parental controls aren’t helping stop social media addiction in children. So how does that smoker analogy make sense?

That analogy makes no sense for this situation.

Ok but how would that even work? When a company’s product/service is good, then people start recommending it to others and more and more people start using it. The only way to stop companies from growing big is to force them to stop accepting customers after a certain point.

Any of the privacy related ones. It’s a very important topic to me so I like to read about it and discuss with like minded people.

Would you mind going a little more into depth about the aspects of anonymity other than masking the IP address you think people are unaware of?

I feel like these anti-privacy legislations are less of a left vs right thing and more just that the government is always trying to strip citizens of their freedoms to give themselves more power and control.

I would use Mullvad Browser for browsing as it has very strong anti-fingerprinting/tracking and Brave/Librewolf (or a different privacy Firefox fork) for anything that you need to be logged in for.

I recommend Soulseek as well. You can find almost any audiobook on there, no VPN needed. Use Nicotine+ on desktop and Seeker on Android. iPhone users are out of luck though.

Rules for thee not for me.

People have been mindlessly sharing their contacts with every app and service for years. This makes no difference.

What dumbass decided to implement an experimental technology and not test it for 5 minutes to make sure it’s accurate before giving it to the whole company and telling them to rely upon it?