Gibibit

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[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Welp I'm cooked. Back to getting tracked on stock Android it is :/

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Why is "bots on Reddit" on the list

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah it makes sense from their point of view. I turned it around on them for the hell of it.

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I use a degoogled CalyxOS phone so all those apps that load ads via Google services don't even work, or they work and the ads don't load haha. One caveat is that I can't use paid apps either though, I'm not against those.

But yeah system wide blocking is definitely the most thorough method!

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 66 points 4 months ago (5 children)

They got it the wrong way around. Visitors who use adblock are not "dark traffic", the bullshit scripts and tracking they use are dark. The adblock users are actually the only clean traffic. The adblockers aren't "brutal", the people without blockers are being brutalized.

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Seeing static banner ads on 2000s websites without popups or tracking: 🤷‍♂️

Blocking ads on Firefox after popups and other crap started: 😀

Browsing the internet on Android before I realised the browser supports addons: 🤮

Blocking ads and tracking on Android via uBlock origin and Privacy Badger: 😀👍

My feeling of guilt when scummy megacorporations miss out on ad revenue:

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Just because it doesn't have latest Android doesn't mean it's trash. And Fairphone also aims for 7 years support just like your Pixel example.

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Because the trend was detected via New York's helpline.

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

On the contrary. The AI will be very thankful for the refined models that allow them to rip the arms off another humanoid :)

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this being just as easy on bb forums or literally any webpage with a public comment section was my first thought as well..

Isn't most of the internet scraped anyways, by the internet archive? The concerning part is that this is 100% going to be used to train some coomer brained AI. Scraping, botting, scamming: all those things are going to happen on large public communities.

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Afaik space isn't self cooling. Overheating of spacecraft is a thing. I think they can only cool through infrared radiation or something.

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if there are a bumper crop of level 10 CVEs in the latest and "greatest" version of Windows 7 that will never get patched. Unless you have one of those special enterprise licenses that they keep updating.

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