In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....
It’s not the fact that there are filler results that bothers me, after all there might not be results for everything we may possibly search.
It’s the fact that these are links to services which have a tie to my unique identifiers which I deliberately declined access to in all available ways!
Recently Motorola followed by Samsung started disabling/locking devices flagged as “illegal” through Mexico marking a precedent over the remote control manufacturers have over the devices they sell! Only after Mexican government made an official request to manufacturers they removed the lock....
The EU Commission has been pushing client-side scanning for well over a year. This new intrusion into private communications has been pitched as perhaps the only way to prevent the sharing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
It’s been a few years since I’ve needed to install a version of Windows on a PC for personal use. I have a license for Windows 10 Pro, but today I found out it is no longer possible to get through the installation without first creating an account with Microsoft....
Many parent control apps are more like Spyware and are often also exactly that, Spyware which spy on your Kids. Or Google Family Link is also a great example which you can’t remove even if you want too (as parent). I already setup a non-child-friendly blocking DNS and set the Age Limit in the Google Play Store and did all the...
I have an iphone for work that I’m also allowed to use for personal stuff. I don’t use it often, but it has a great camera and is a useful backup for 2FA if I would lose my primary (android) phone....
I would avoid using an employer supplied device for personal use! More often than not these devices are “managed devices” which consists of management profiles that could grant all sorts of permissions from normal diagnostics, restrictions to location, camera and more!
With that said Apple in such case would become the middle man in relatio to the transaction! That means that Apple pay would retain the purchase logs on your card and send a apple.com description to your bank to mask all your purchases! In theory you’d be given more privacy in relation to your bank but you’d be introducing a third party in the process and more potential failure points!
It’s also very much dependent on the country you are on! There are certain countries “India being recent” that restrict Apple from applying the same functionality everywhere!
You really need to make lobbying illegal! From my point of view all of this is happening because you’ve allowed your government to be funded by whomever!
Life is a balance of interests and billionaires seem to have a grip on your congress’s ones! Yet I doubt any of that is to happen since y’all rotating the same rotten individuals for the last 40 years!
Your hopes of living in a truly free country died with Kennedy!
Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)
In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....
Manufacturer remote lock over "illegally imported devices"
Recently Motorola followed by Samsung started disabling/locking devices flagged as “illegal” through Mexico marking a precedent over the remote control manufacturers have over the devices they sell! Only after Mexican government made an official request to manufacturers they removed the lock....
EU Pitched Client-Side Scanning By Targeting Certain EU Residents With Misleading Ads (www.techdirt.com)
The EU Commission has been pushing client-side scanning for well over a year. This new intrusion into private communications has been pitched as perhaps the only way to prevent the sharing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
installing Windows 10 pro without an account.
It’s been a few years since I’ve needed to install a version of Windows on a PC for personal use. I have a license for Windows 10 Pro, but today I found out it is no longer possible to get through the installation without first creating an account with Microsoft....
How to make a phone secure for children without using "Spyware"?
Many parent control apps are more like Spyware and are often also exactly that, Spyware which spy on your Kids. Or Google Family Link is also a great example which you can’t remove even if you want too (as parent). I already setup a non-child-friendly blocking DNS and set the Age Limit in the Google Play Store and did all the...
What data will Apple gather if I start using Apple Pay?
I have an iphone for work that I’m also allowed to use for personal stuff. I don’t use it often, but it has a great camera and is a useful backup for 2FA if I would lose my primary (android) phone....
You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills (www.eff.org)