Nope. Google "reads" all your data and saves it to push ads & suggested content to you.
I know this because Google read my emails (AFAIK there's no toggle to disable tracking on this product) and suggested me a video based on the contents of one of my emails. Mind you, I wasn't even logged in on YouTube at the time.
YouTube recommendations are only based off your activity on YouTube. Google doesn't even read your emails for ad targeting. Your anecdote was just confirmation bias.
The suggested video was too specific to be just an anecdote. YouTube doesn't need an account nor cookies to show you videos. They know you if your browser is fingerprintable enough.
The difference is Chrome atleast gives you the choice (maybe illusion?) to opt-out of *some of the telemetry.
Mozilla to-date refuses to build a one button switch to disable all telemetry [0] and there's calls to telemetry domains such as location.services.mozilla.com you cannot stop on some of their products like Firefox Focus (ironic for a privacy product).
so you are willing to accept chrome on android that does not have any extensions so you cant have UBO and you have ads and scripts and all the BS of unprotected interent but you fear firefox telemetry. nice
I do not fear telemetry. What I refuse to accept from Firefox is a FOSS product being as bad if not worse as Chrome on the telemetry and data collection front.
I like uBO but you can replace it with a dns filtering service for 95% of its use case (ad blocking).
It could just be me but I do not see browser extensions on mobile as a killer feature. Moreso, when the same extensions are primarily developed for desktop.
But a) that link is about desktop and b) Google don't need to do this on android because they've already ID'd you up the kazoo by requiring a gmail account to even use the OS
Sure, and bottom line the OS/Kernel prevent you from doing some things in rootless mode, although we are always attempting to push the boundaries on what is allowed, in a secure way.
Rootless mode works for the great majority of containers, and in most cases users have work arounds for containers that do not work, like binding to ports < 1024. But I agree that understanding these limitations, sometimes requires users to learn new things.
But Security often requires compromise, we don't run all processes as root for a reason in Linux.Running processes with privilege mode by default is way more secure.
I don't disagree with what you say. Generally if you pick security over the conventional you are bound to face limitations for the sake of security. But podman as a product compared to docker to me looks very less mature (things like podman-compose should be included in the box 4 years on). I also get the feeling people who compare podman to docker only run wordpress as a test then call it a success without getting deep into what problems both podman and docker solve.
When making the offer in April 2022, I don’t think he anticipated the collapse of the ad sales at all.
The basic template probably looked like a typical private equity buyout: maintain existing revenue, cut costs to a minimum, load the company with debt to reduce the acquirer’s direct downside risk… And the crypto angle would be all personal upside on the short term, raking in the cash from token pumps that stripped-down Twitter wouldn’t be interested in policing.
> When making the offer in April 2022, I don’t think he anticipated the collapse of the ad sales at all.
I'm more inclined to believe that he was aware of the macro-economic conditions in 2022 when making the offer. Besides, he gave numerous speeches proclaiming that he was making the offer not primarily to make Twitter a profitable business.[0]
> raking in the cash from token pumps that stripped-down Twitter wouldn’t be interested in policing.
There isn't much meat on this bone.
For some perspective, Jeff Bezos bought Washington Post for $250M.[1]
Elon could afford without a sweat 3 or 4 such media organizations to manipulate information flow as he sees fit. With far better results than owning a social media platform.
Since you didn't mention what happened to the accuser after making the false allegation, I'm going to assume the company just wrote off the incident as a simple misunderstanding.
Not many of them have the spamming potential that email has. The real purpose behind all these bullshit newsletters is to "build an audience" and be able to "engage" it later with spam or maybe even sell the entire list to other spammers.
I prefer email because it’s all in one place and easy to ignore. Then I’ll have a nice leisurely weekend morning reading through my inbox. Never noticed an issue with junk mail. But I’m curious, what would you recommend as a better alternative?
There is some value in consuming a mix of both push and pull content. In the modern world we've gone way overboard on only consuming what we want exactly when we want it it. News letters are more like a magazine or newspaper subscription where you're choosing to have content randomly pushed at you to broaden your horizons. Also as a content creator it enables you to write differently for a smaller but way more engaged audience. It's like the difference between having a private conversation with a large group of friends versus getting on your soap box on the street corner.
What are the many and better ways? Social media certainly isn't one of them. Subscription email also shouldn't go to junkmail unless you're doing something very wrong.
Requires you to create an account on that specific platform, plus we have a few examples (eg: Facebook, YouTube) where the platform might decide to not notify everyone if the content isn't "worthy".
Edit: And since timelines now are curated by some algorithm, you can't trust it to show you all new content.
> Web push notifications
Abused by many to send you crap, not always easy to keep everything working when moving to another device. It's disabled on my browser.
> Requires you to create an account on that specific platform, plus we have a few examples (eg: Facebook, YouTube) where the platform might decide to not notify everyone if the content isn't "worthy".
Precisely. One downside is you have to have an account on the platform to receive notifications but this can be overlooked by the fact that SM platforms have X10/0 reach (potential) comparatively. Besides the type of person who wants to engage audiences via email subscriptions isn't necessarily eager to post unsavory content.
> Edit: And since timelines now are curated by some algorithm, you can't trust it to show you all new content.
No. The point is to receive alerts for new content. No sorting is done for this list as far as am aware of.
> Abused by many to send you crap, not always easy to keep everything working when moving to another device. It's disabled on my browser.
I think if we are being fair, we can say email has been abused far more (famous Nigerian prince) than push notifications maybe ever will.
> I like RSS. And this blog offers a feed
Yes. But none of this is immediately clear from the article nor from the main page. I honestly wouldn't know there's an RSS feed if you hadn't posted it.
It looks like it's on SquareSpace. Their email delivery is usually fine. Most people aren't set up for RSS or necessarily want to interact on a social network.
Google only packages Chrome for Ubuntu (deb) officially. If you are not using Ubuntu, you are probably not using Chrome directly from Google. However, if you use flatpaks you might as well trust this one package from flathub since the trust model is the same.
Funny. But I have to root in order to pass safetynet on my device since it doesn't pass with the official lineage build on my device last time I checked (I squarely blame Google on this not lineage devs!).
Since am rooted anyways, it is my preferred method of installing Revanced Youtube [0], forcing auto-updates [1][2] for apps the way Google Playstore does it plus other miscellaneous fixes. It's also how I install microG[3].
Root has far too many other benefits to cover in one sitting but one of my favorites include being able to use an old app called DriveDroid to turn your Android into a bootable USB device capable of running live operating system ISOs.
I know this because Google read my emails (AFAIK there's no toggle to disable tracking on this product) and suggested me a video based on the contents of one of my emails. Mind you, I wasn't even logged in on YouTube at the time.