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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Wow this is amazing. My dad and I used to compete against each other to get the highest score on our old PC. Thanks for the recommendation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

You know, I wasn't convinced about this theory until he got to the belly button explanation. It just ties the 4 earth day ONEness God-man truth together so nicely.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What is that ref at the end of the link?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I grew up calling them egg on toast lol. We weren't only unimaginative, we couldn't even describe the food right

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there any way to prevent search information from being linked to me? Like some way so ad companies can't even gather than information That would be great

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is the only social media I have, but we are connected via Whatsapp. I'm thinking that since we were both connected to the wifi without a VPN, that's the probable source of information bleed.

 

Ok I have a question. I'm kinda a noob when it comes to privacy. I'll follow the guides and do the things to try to minimize ad companies selling my data etc.

Some basic stats: I have a Samsung running stock android. My GF has an iPhone. I use brave as my standard browser (I know that's not super popular but I haven't made the move to Firefox yet.) I have DNS level ad blocking on my router cause I hate ads with a passion. She uses safari.

So here's the deal. I was browsing the web looking for gift ideas for Christmas and came across some moccasins I liked. I mentioned to her that I liked them and browsed their website for a few minutes.

About 10 minutes after that, she's checking her Instagram and sees an ad for the exact brand of moccasin I just told her about. Just for kicks, she also checks her Facebook and sees the same ad there (makes sense cause it's the same company).

My question is basically how on earth did she get an ad for something I looked up? And how can we prevent that from happening? It's very very disconcerting to have ads pop up on others' phones right after looking that thing up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ok but Palantir is a top tier name for a spy company

 

So a while back I came across an article/essay talking about how privacy is more than just a personal right and rather something about society as a whole. It went into detail about different arguments against privacy, such as when personal privacy is sacrificed for the good of the people. I remember a good chunk of it talked about reframing the concept as privacy as a right and the pitfalls of that definition.

I can't remember the name of the article or where I read it and I was hoping one of you might know what I'm talking about, or even have something similar to share

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I wanna know. I'd love a barometer but I cannot think of any reason why lol