I have learned that the best game is simply not to play. You risk annoying the hell out of people. Let them get curious, maybe mention it but they have to come to you. Pushing it onto people who do not care is simply not worth it. You are wasting your time, this is real life. Some people will simply not want to care. It is their choice and sometimes that choice will not match yours.
The people I have so-called converted where people who actually were interest to know more. If you push it on people who are not interested then you risk being that annoying person who comes off as an activist or ideologue.
I never get that message, say on Freetube, and I also use a VPN. May I suggest you rotate to a smaller country’s server? Specifically one that is well outside the West and that also does not use English as their main or secondary language. I noticed English speaking servers are far, far more likely to get flagged.
I have suggested this to others with excellent results so far.
I have gotten that error when I check invidious on FF, but I am able to get by with uBlock on and just making sure JS is enabled. Never had that happen on Android clients.
On, I have and have used it. Thank you.
But as far as the host server that you hit is comcerned, whether you block the fonts via uBlock or do not fulfill the server request via Local CDN, they will still use it to profile you, because you tag yourself in the minority of users in the world that do not hit the Google font servers. And Google knows this.
Since even most adblock users still do not block fonts or other assets like this.
Albeit I do as I use uBlock on Medium mode, including fonts. And I dropped using Local CND as to minimise my extensions footprint.
The main gain would be for the site’s aesthetics as you host some assets locally, but from a privacy perspective, you are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Albeit you are damned a little bit less if you do. LOL
Fair. Time can also be a factor. Albeit you would agree that coupled to that there is also a sense of misconstrued set of priorities. Being fit is one of those things that there are no shortcuts for. Also, one had to pick and chose want is best and sometimes compromises must he done. Which I think it is a big issue who have been sold the lie that they can do and be whatever they want, which is for one not true. Also, there are only so many hours in a day, so clearly something had to give. Which in general to many it may he their health, whether they are aware of it or not.
There is also the fact that today’s society is not focused overly in quality of life but in profit and production. That is a grander issue that need to be address or we are just going to have unhealthier people who just die earlier.
From my own point of view, I have studies nutritional science and do not find it neither hard nor stressful to plan my diet. That is just me, bit I also took the time to learn. Again, time is once again the tricky one. Maybe I watch less TV, maybe I play less video games, or spend less time on my phone, but that time to take of my health has to come from somewhere. Again, we cannot do it all.
Yup, it does not end until we die. So, the best thing we can do is cherry pick what priorities matter the most to us and that we not happy but content.
Sorry to hear about the commute, commuting is one of the worst things in western culture and studies were done that showed that commuting was one of the most dreaded things adults do today.
In most of the USA healthy food is not a luxury. There are luxurious or expensive healthy foods, sure, but the main issues I see is a lack of nutritional science education and lack of personal control.
People will still buy"lite" food full of sugar because they are told they are low on fat. Or will eat stuff full of artificial sweeteners because they are told they are low on sugars. Despite the fact that we know that artificial sweeteners are bad for gut health. We know seed oils ate bad, bit you have literal magazines obfuscating this with BS stories where they will try to put lipstick on a pig and confuse less Academic readers with weird takes that may go over the years if people who have not studies the subject. It is insidious, if you ask me. It is hard to thinkk or see that money interests do not have a hand. I mean, changing things for the better would 100% affect their bottom line. So, why not lie or obfuscate until they absolutely cannot?
The reality is that eating healthy takes some work and personal accountability and people can also be lazy. Since corps go out of their way to lie to people, either fully or by omission. Just like most tech corps do.
Most legalese is not hard to understand. But people are too lazy, or ignorant, to bother or care. Anyone who is reasonable and took the time to read say Apple’s or Google’s ToS would 100% try to avoid using them as much as possible. Why? Because trying to care about your privacy is work and can be less convinient. Sometimes people want a shine device for ego points. So no common sense needed. And the acri9ns needed to minimize those corp’s surveillance takes a bit of work too.
The USA has a capitalistic, convenience problem that has been propagandised by Corps in order to give them the impression that why bother XYZ if we can make it easier and convinient for you, it will only cost your privacy. And since privacy can be at times an abstract concept to many it does not register as important or as serious a risk to lose it.
People who live in say, countries like the old Easter block are far more aware of the propaganda being thrown at people today, for example. The way the UK and Germany are are not that different in many ways as the CCP and the old soviet union. You are 100% correct with the bias for instant gratification.
They do have a a plan for corporations, for other end users the main path is self-hosting. Which is not hard, alternatively, there are known provides that you can sign up with, however. Most of them are paid services. In general, in one way or another have to pay for things, nothing is 100% free.
However there may be some free services but they are likely very limited or there is the issue of whether you want to trust them with your data.
Or, the most obvious, less moving parts answer is that they are corrupt and only will push policies and fear mongering that will keep them in power. Irrelevant if they are Left or Right.
You are being too kind if you think they are not 100% aware of what they are doing. They do not need a lesson in Civics, they need to be replaced.
Uh… At the fear of sounding pedantic, do not go into a country illegally.
If I went to France or Guatemala, I would not be surprised if I suddenly get deported. In order for Laws to mean something, they have to be upheld.
Or are we supposed to pick and chose Laws, but only when convenient? If incorrect, can I rob you or get your Visa or MasterCard numbers? Promise not to use them. ;-)
Thanks for the link. We may be slightly speaking past each other. On one hand, the link you sent is of course, correct. I had read that before and is not that I did not believe that the GDPR would include it, more so on not fully trusting 23andMe to comply.
What you may be overlooking is that in the real world, possible buyers will have access to data as part of any Due Diligence terms, whether they purchase or not. In a perfect world it should not change things but in practice it can, or does. Apparently, that bit I quoted earlier was a very recent update to their T&Cs, as they are protecting themselves for any future lawsuits. Also, I just do not trust 23andMe to have your best interest at heart and to fully comply with privacy issues at the current time, either due to willful BS or mistake. It might just not be a priority. The whole thing could collapse tomorrow, but they are still full on taking people’s money. Any promise of compliance are just words at this point. I have known enough large companies collapse to see this as no different. GDPR or not. On a privacy concern, is not as if they asked everyone who is blood related for any consent, either.
This was releseased not to long ago, so the USA Feds are not really confident, either:
ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-urges-23andme-customers-contact-company-delete
But on paper, I agree that Europeans seem to have sturdier protections. Albeit Americans may have more legal options. Cheers and hope they fully delete your data without any BS.
Not sure if it is a joke.
But according to the legalese of some manufacfurers, just being inside the car is a form of you giving consent.
You would have to disable all radios and receivers, GPS, never take your car for maintenance and never connect your car’s systems to anything and never connect your phone or peripherals to it. As your phone will send car data to the manufacturers. Disable or break all cameras. And this is assuming they even respect you opting out. Apparently, most people are so unaware of the data collecting being such a huge thing that some manufacturers do not even really disable what you tell them to disable, or by using the car or an option in the car, you give them permission to enable them again. LOL Point is that you can’t or most people won’t do any of these things and car makers won’t stop until maybe they get sued.
Here is at least one of those reports the other poster touched on
LOL I told everyone the same. Same on my end, they thought I was being conspirational. As if a company could never one day fail and have to sell their assets. It seemed impossible to them, somehow.
I used to think that part of the reason is that they submitted their samples without thinking and later contemplating how not smart that action was; created some hard cognitive dissonance, making calling me a conspiracy theorist the far easier pill to swallow than admitting a mistake. Since I know of people who did it early on, as they thought they were being cutting edge at the time.
Yeah, I do not want to buy a car either or anything that sells in subscriptions. I am already keeping an eye on models of non-smart TVs for when my current model finally dies. LOL
For those wondering, Mullvad is only good if you change nothing about the browser, if you do, then you will he easily fingerprinted. As the number of people who use Mullvad is already small as it is. You will br like a spotlight in the dark if you add other extensions.