Man I thought I added that information, I intended to, obviously.

But either case, I’m not taking any chances. I’d never click a mail link regardless, I’d go straight to the address in another browser session to examine what’s going on.

My solid guess right now is actual hacker attempt, because they’ve been trying to log in every 6 hours or so for a day or two. I use solid passwords for everything, so hopedy hope. Not that I know what the fuck they’d use my twitter account for.

Of course it’s not!

Look at it like they are saying:

“Hi! Your account may be hacked. To mitigate it, you need to log in.”

I didn’t even know I had a Twitter account, and so 2FA certainly not. So as a person who never uses Twitter, to get a mail like this is a conundrum. Better log in and change that password or whatever, right? So suddenly someone who never used twitter, or apparently did sign up once some long time ago, is logging in for the first time in ages.

Corporate: “See, users are coming back to our platform!”

Then again, it could be a phishing attempt, too, but either case is un-good. Someone tried to log in multiple times over 6 hour intervals and over 2 days, so obv hacker, but still.

That sounds like a great idea, in that case, but I know 0 about HTML, I just make systems run. Where do we go to suggest something like it? Lemmy is a whole new thing for me so…

Si señor?

This is the EU slowly doing what it can.

“Kill cancer already”? Ok, for that we need to do testing and advanced chemistry for a long time. This IS how you get rid of it, there is no other way.

This is one battle in the long war, my friend. If you want to kill them, these kinds of steps are absolutely essential. You can’t just go back in time and snipe Hitler, you have to fight on the beaches, on the fields and in the streets, and you must never surrender.

De-googling is not a simple task, it takes actual man-hours of proper work to be done, especially when we’re talking decades of accounts et c. Even when and if that gets done, what are you going to do about Android? And even if you sort that out, there are a hundred other digital ware that would need the same treatment.

At some point the task becomes insurmountable, it seems, not to mention you already need to have a solid technical background to have a chance of pulling it off.

I would love some suggestions if you have them, but frankly I am getting too old for this shit, I’ve fought it all my life but I’m just the one person and my time is limited you know what I’m sayin.

Ha ha none, that’s me getting creative so you guys have something pretty to look at while also hiding my personal info. I can’t help myself starting to doodling away when I go to delete shit with GIMP.

But I will always prefer screenshots because I think it is more impactful and provides visual context to show what’s going on, a picture says more than a thousand words as it were.

(i don’t use brave browser btw)

Huh. Would that be a good solution, like a hover popup you mean? I’m not into CSS. Will screen readers get that? Shouldn’t be crazy difficult to make a bot otherwise, screen reader scans images for text on request by poster or automatically. We have bots here right?

Dude I’m just a drunk gal with an internet connection, you would not believe the things that slip my mind on a daily basis.

I am always respectful and try to mind, but I’m not exactly omniscient either, I can barely hold my life together know what I mean? So sorry for no subtitles, but there are tons of super cool people here who do it voluntarily so that everyone can enjoy the knowledge of how deeply we are being spied on by Google. And our fight against it!

Good person. Thanks.

My bad, sorry for the oversight. No pun intended.

The loopholes are ridiculous, not to mention that they are obviously going to just break everything for you if you don’t comply anyway, but there’s so many things they could do to throw sand in the gears- what matters is that the EU is doing something, it’s reacting, it’s trying to fight it and keep our common European values and not let foreign corporate empires dictate how things are done here, futile as the prospect may seem.

Things most certainly changed. Now google has to beg me for it. Come on Google, beg. But maybe your point is that resistance is futile and why even try to fight it just give in and let it happen. I don’t know but mama didn’t raise no quitter, I don’t know about you but to each his own eh.

Least cynical american.

Oh man thank you I always forget, sorry, didn’t think about it.

Remember! YOU are in control.

And of course this goes without saying:

Right? About what? Legally? Morally? Not-being-cunts-ally? Fuck CNN man, laws schmaws, they are doing everything they can to skirt it, please.

Personally I find a good high caliber handgun to work most of the time also.

of course not

istilldontcareaboutcookies

Nah I’m good.

Lord Invidious? TF is that, some Star Wars character?

Should, would, could. Do you know the difference between a prescriptive and a descriptive statement? Look, my point is- things are getting out of hand complicated, if you think they easy, then you already born into a framework. Know whadamsayn.

The struggle is real. You have to be 5 years old to keep up with this shit hahahahaha

I thank the LORD for GDPR. I am amazed it actually happened. I voted Pirate Party for EU Parliament every time, or whoever was most loud about privacy protections at the time, I wrote to parliamentarians, one of whom I grew up with, and I sure like to think and hope it made a difference. Never thought I’d see something like this happen. The EU works. Democracy works.

That’s what I’ve always said, you got no out, if youre a big black blob on the map, the connections show exactly who you are.

We are just rocks tumbling down a cliff side.

You see what they’re actually doing there?

“We are by law forced to give you the option to view our ads and accept our tracking, because of privacy legislation in your region. Since you are hindering us from doing so, you can’t come to the birthday party”.

Ok, thank you EU, I suppose! :)

I’ve got it running pretty maintenance free in a docker LXC in Proxmox and use Twingate for access to it and everything else outside my home network.

Read that sentence back to yourself and tell me there isn’t a lot to keep track of. Remember, this is specifically for solving 1 issue. Sysadmins and hard core masochists will learn every framework and take a scalpel to both software and hardware if needed, but that is not 99% of the world’s demographic.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.

Ha ha hah!

I think they mean it would be wholly unethical reading CNN articles. :)

I use a spoof agent, that could be the problem, if, as you say, anyone would really consider it a problem not reaching fucking CNN.

I’ll counter with

I don’t want to set the world on fire

It seems that a lot of folk have wildly different experiences on wild variety of browsers and hardware. I use Mullvad VPN and I think their new DNS blockers seem to eradicate advertisements even on Spotify Free. I also don’t think Google made the adblock rollout global, but did if for whatever subsections of the network. Looks like they’ve backed off for now, even, no doubt a time out to calibrate the evil cheater detecting algos…

It really gets to be a lot of edge cases to keep track of nowadays though, am I the only one? I mean the collection of scripts I have to keep track of to keep everything running as normal feels like the beginning of a new operating system.

I think that’s a very valid point, because that’s literally what Google does with AMP links…