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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the classic Microsoft "what you really want is hidden behind a checkbox, otherwise you'll get shit".

[–] [email protected] 139 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I once turned that feature on thinking it was an actual backup (copies of my files in the cloud), I remember how angry I was when I found out it wasn't a backup after all and just removed your files from your computer and only made them accessible online.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I discovered what works with Youtube (for age verification) is sending a picture of an ID with everything redacted but the date of birth, so that the date was the one and only thing visible. That worked! Although it could've really been anyone's ID, lol.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Early results suggest the effort is working. According to numbers from Reddit, free-form ads got 28% more clicks than all other types of ads on the site and saw a jump in community engagement.

Yeah, because users get tricked into clicking and then immediately leave.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hope that someone at WhatsApp realizes their duty to leak that code to the public.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Obviously people of any gender can commit rape, and though the statistics may be dominated by male perpetrators, that fact is enough to not make the legislation gender-specific.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Don't show this to anyone with OCD.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

If media/publishing companies would just throw the exclusivity model in the trash where it belongs (and let DRM die too), then everyone could pay to see what they want on their platform of choice without this bullshit. As long as that's not the case, I don't see myself using these "services".

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With their consent, I had entered the rider’s credit card information—data that is often easy to buy from criminal marketplaces, or which might be trivial for an abusive partner to obtain—and punched that into the MTA site for OMNY, the subway’s contactless payments system. After a few seconds, the site churned out the rider’s travel history for the past 7 days, no other verification required.

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