Those do exactly what they're supposed to do. They're even explicitly advertised as providing new revenue streams.
InFerNo
joined 2 years ago
I'm going back to webrings or something. There's gotta be some holdovers somewhere. Make my own simple website about some topic I Iike and hang around in a forum.
With Von der Leyen giving in to Trumps demands regarding trade, it's not surprising they're capitulating digital sovereignty to the US, too.
There was a forum in the Benelux that did exactly that and they had to shut down.
You could ask someone you know to register and share the login, it's a flawed concept. There's probably a bunch of partners in there who didn't even know their boyfriend used their info to create an account to check on themselves.
They probably think this will persuade the politicians to review these rules, as they can't reach their target audiences anymore. I hope they see the overwhelming support for this decision, but I'm not sure if I'm in a bubble. I only see positive reactions so far. There was 1 critical article in the news, but just stating facts, no opinions. I think it's great. Less brainwashing going on during the election cycles from now on since Facebook in particular allowed for some really specific demographic targeting.
They are technically free to leave the country
My ISP used to advertise about fiber because their backend is fiber but residential connections are coax with DOCSIS whatever. One of the downsides is assymetric up/download speeds. Upload gets reduced to favour download and you get these whack ratios.
That sounds like a coax network instead of fiber.
The argument has always been, if when chat rooms are public, anyone can join and start logging the chats, encryption does nothing.
It has the ability to connect over TLS, but that's about it.
I loved using it for its simplicity, except when using all the different flavours of nick registration (Q, NickServ, ...).
Why? It only verifies age, no? Why would watching adult content with or without age verification be associated with Savile? Are they perhaps checking which content you specifically are consuming? So they have more than your age? Now now, couldn't have seen that coming.