baronvonj

So yeah the person said it told them there wasn't an account for me and it sent me an SMS inviting me to join. But then they said the message they sent showed the blue double checkmark indicating the message had been seen. 😕 So I loaded the app on an old phone with no other apps or anything on it, and it registered my number without any fuss. So I guess Meta was put out a good psych game. But it's weird that the message was read before I setup the app.

You should assume that they're not private since E2EE is not an advertised feature.

Nice, will check it out.

ah, brilliant. thanks.

How is that a function of the streaming stick rather than YouTube itself? Have you looked into if your home router can rune some ad blocking software? Something like PiHole/AdGuard/Unbound.

MS was never split up, the ~~ruling~~ sentence was overturned in appellate court.

the stupid thing is I still have my children and I adding our MS accounts after creating the local accounts, because I like setting the parental limits once for all the computers. I just can't stand the stupid email-based usernames it creates when signing into the MS account during account creation.

but it won't end the blue/green bubble nonsense.

This is why I use virtual credit card numbers for everything online.

Well color me jelly. That's like actually usable and shit.

wait, really? For me on Windows 11 the launcher right-click literally just has one entry: Firefox. Nothing for recent/frequent/open tabs. Nothing for opening a new tab or window. Nothing for Private. Just that one entry that does the same thing as just clicking the launcher. There's a separate start menu item for private browser window, I could pin that on the taskbar next to the regular launcher.

And what's different from the current profile manager.

From a usability standpoint, what current profile manager? Having to web search to find out how to open it puts it beyond the reach of most users.