ayaya

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[–] ayaya 2 points 3 months ago

Even if they fully render them into the video with absolutely no way for an extension to tell where it is something like Sponsorblock where people manually enter time codes could still get around it.

[–] ayaya 104 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Usually being "lazy" is also the result of some kind of untreated medical issue or disorder like ADHD, autism, sleep apnea, etc. or any combination of those. Almost no healthy person would make the choice to sit around doing nothing for years at a time. Treating it like it's some kind of lack of will or moral failing only makes it worse.

[–] ayaya 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Plasma actually has a UI for smart TVs if you weren't aware, although I have never used it myself so I'm not sure how good it is. https://plasma-bigscreen.org

[–] ayaya 3 points 3 months ago

Interesting. I've been rooted and running custom ROMs for a decade at this point and have never had an issue with banking apps.

[–] ayaya 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've had to explain this so many times. The majority of molesters are not pedophiles and the majority of pedophiles are not molesters. Pedophilia is a disorder, one that people suffer from at that. There is a (almost certainly) sizable group of pedophiles who have never actually done anything wrong but are caught in the crossfire of anger and therefore can't seek help/treatment.

[–] ayaya 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree with the sentiment, when things get too popular every sub becomes more generic and filled with recycled or low effort content. But there's a happy medium. It would be nice if there were enough people that some more niche communities had activity.

[–] ayaya 1 points 4 months ago

Really? For me rspamd blocks at least 15 spam emails a day, usually from China or Russia. An additional 2-3 go to the junk folder, and some still slip through the cracks especially if it's coming from a gmail address.

But it could be as simple as it being because my email is publicly available (github, my website, etc.) so scrapers are picking it up.

[–] ayaya 9 points 4 months ago

That's a really clever login system.

[–] ayaya 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It should all be opt in

Then you introduce self-selection bias and the data is worthless.

Aggregate data can be used to personally identify

You can't identify someone based on how they interact with a service. If you spend 5 minutes on one page and 2 minutes on another that could be anyone. Even if you for some reason personally knew someone's browsing habits it would be nearly impossible to pick them out in a sea of millions of data points.

I see you linked privacyguides.org in the thread as "alternatives", one of the services it recommends is Proton (Mail, Drive, etc.). Look at their privacy policy:

2.1 Visiting proton.me or protonvpn.com website: We employ a local installation of self-developed analytics tools. Analytics are anonymized whenever possible and stored locally (and not on the cloud). IP addresses are not retained and stored for such analytics.

When you use our native applications, we (or the mobile app platform providers) may collect certain information. We may use mobile analytics software (e.g. fabric.io) app statistics and crash reporting, Play Store app statistics, App Store app statistics, or self-hosted Sentry crash reporting to send crash information to our developers in order to rapidly fix bugs.

Or how about addy.io that privacyguides recommends for email forwarding? From their privacy policy:

We use a self-hosted instance of Umami, an open-source, privacy-focused and lightweight option for website analytics. All the site measurement is carried out absolutely anonymously.

ALL online services collect this kind of data. Even the privacy-focused ones. There is nothing nefarious about it.

[–] ayaya 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Like the comment I replied to already explained, this information is necessary to make informed development decisions. If you don't know who is using what feature you might be wasting resources on something barely anyone uses while neglecting something everyone needs.

You also need some of that data for security purposes. You can't implement rate limiting or prevent abuse if you can't log and track how your services are being interacted with.

And this is aggregate data. I can promise you not a single person cares about what any individual user is doing (assuming it's not illegal)

[–] ayaya 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Yeah as someone who has worked in web development for over 20 years everything in here is completely standard. Almost every major website in existence collects this kind of analytical data.

[–] ayaya 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The hardware survey doesn't ask every single user, it just gets a sample. So it probably just happened to hit a few more Windows 7 people this month.

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