R00bot

R00bot, 11 months ago

This is a collab channel with Aleksa, I think Aleksa drives this channel more than Alex.

R00bot, 11 months ago

I’ve noticed some transphobia and homophobia recently too (usually from lemmy.world accounts 👀)

R00bot, 11 months ago

Brave has recently had some controversy around selling user data for AI training and isn’t really a great suggestion for privacy due to this.

R00bot, 11 months ago

It’s a common meme format/trope to repeat the last word in the top text as the first word in the bottom text.

R00bot, 11 months ago

Base Xbox One user checking in. It was tolerable.

R00bot, 11 months ago

My first ending I killed myself because I didn’t understand the two options it gave me. Option I selected was something like “end it” and I thought it meant like go to the final fight 💀

R00bot, 11 months ago

They would get anything the activity pub protocol gives them, which I can’t imagine is much. I’d have to look into it but I assume they’re pretty much only sharing the stuff you see.

… Ok so I looked it up (couldn’t leave it on the assumption lol). activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/Have a look at the standard here if you like. The only privacy related one I can see is the location header, but it’s optional and not implemented by most fediverse apps.

That’s not to say it will never become possible for Facebook to get more info. They will absolutely try to throw their weight around if they gain traction in the space, and could, in theory, require more info be shared for fediverse instances that want to federate with Threads. This is why it’s important that fediverse admins don’t get too chummy with the zucc.

Meta will absolutely try to appear friendly at first, perhaps offering open source development assistance, consulting or training, but it will be a farce to gain power in the space.

Meta are ruthless in the social media space.

R00bot, 11 months ago

That’s overall numbers, not percentage. It’s reasonable to assume those other ways of buying/playing it have dropped off similarly.

R00bot, 11 months ago

I think the self DDoS theory is probably right, but I also think profitability might come into it. It wouldn’t surprise me if Twitter aren’t pulling enough high quality advertisers to make a profit on user minutes spent on the site. Would explain why twitter blue subs also copped the rate limit despite Musk’s insistence that they can’t be bots. At a certain amount of API calls per day even the Twitter blue subs stop being profitable.

R00bot, 11 months ago

You’re right bro you know better than the FTC.

R00bot, 11 months ago

i tried to get access to facebook’s api to mess around (as a student) but they declined my request. i ended up making a bot that ran in a headless browser wasting far more of facebooks resources and i used it to create shitposts that updated the post with the number of reactions lmao.

R00bot, 11 months ago

The stuff about recording your camera/tracking eyes/recording mic are all bullshit (ish). That stuff is all possible, and does happen, but not from popular apps. You don’t really need to worry about that unless you’re going to really dodgy websites (and giving them access to your camera/mic), OR if you’re a high profile figure who may be targeted by far more sophisticated attacks. These privacy invasions are uncommon in popular websites and apps because it’s very easy for users to discover that kind of data/processing usage, and the blow to their reputation is far more expensive than the profits they’d get from recording you (not even sure what the commercial incentive would be for that). There are thousands of nerds like me in the cyber security industry who monitor websites network activity for this kind of shady shit, so they wouldn’t get away with it.

Location is a far cheaper (and less conspicuous, data-usage-wise) process, so far more apps will be recording that. Google, Facebook, Apple, and likely dozens more companies know exactly where you’ve been throughout the day, whether by GPS or by wifi (maps of the locations of different wifi networks exist).

As for targeted advertising - any app or website that has a share button for Facebook or other apps is most likely sharing your usage habits with those apps. This is a symbiotic relationship for the apps/websites, because letting Facebook know you’ve been searching their site for X means Facebook will start showing you ads for X, and you might go and purchase from them after seeing that ad. Many believe their phones are listening to them because their targeted advertising is so specific, but the reality is they don’t need to listen to you. They get far better info from your searches and browsing history.

Sorry no sources at the moment because I’m at the gym, but I guess my source is that I graduated with a bachelor’s in cyber security in February lol.

R00bot, 11 months ago

BY GOD! YOUTUBE OUTTA NOWHERE WITH THE CHAIR!

R00bot, 11 months ago

Youtube are trialling a ban on ad blockers.

R00bot, 11 months ago

Awesome stuff. The open source community are killing it with this.

R00bot, 11 months ago

Other instances can always wall them out from the beginning. Sure, they might have better UI/servers, but if they’re never federated they’ve essentially just created another Facebook.