Hard disagree. This, like all of privacy decisions, is entirely situational.

I’m setting out to the exact thing OP is, for both plying my craft, and accessing local community post about resources and events.

Don’t get me wrong, I fucking hate Meta, but I also hate being unhoused. I’ve spent months going back and forth weighing such a decision’s impact on my situation and determined the value I can get out of it to be worthwhile.

Your comment is absolutist and absurd, and total turn off for those interested in joining various privacy communities.

People like that ascribe to the life, not the label, and I wish more went about their religion like that.

JD would just end up putting the jar between some couch cushions…

Lighting a campfire

If you have a SSN, you have a number.

Well I totally get this entire system is mismanaged horribly designed from the start not even designed for this from the start, exetera…

Having some kind of standardized way of stating someone else’s trustworthiness when it comes to money lending it’s something that’s just inherit to capitalism as long as you have capitalism simple as that, even if they don’t call it a credit score.

Capitalism and Oppression.

Test comment to see if still unable issues seems to have been worked out. Ignore.

Agreed. But as we have recently seen, its of more value to google than some of us ever thought. They are fighting long practiced User Blocking/geohoping and whatnot, and they are burning through serious cash and social credit with some of the bullshit they’ve been doing.

I know damn well my data is worth a fair amount more to the market, and that’s reason enough for me.

Your data has monetary value to google. Giving them access, without getting any money from them (or even knowing what ways it will be used) is not something you must do.

If the app provides enough value that is unique to it, then thats OK, but if a data-respecting alternative exists that costs nothing to download or use, and fits the same (or more) needs, then using it just makes sense.

If thats not you, then thats ok.

I also use keep, but thats because I haven’t degoogled my phone yet, so they already have most if not all of that data. Once I am in a position to be able to root and remove google without risking bricking my device (currently unhoused, and just cannot risk it rn), then I plan on never touching the damn thing.

To each their own.

but can’t afford to fix it with ~ ammo and formula prices _tattoo prices, merch cost and travel costs to the prices of scrap copper being so low and the recent decline of dicksucking money at MAGA rallies_ being so high.

Although the app’s designer went and somewhat enshitified things by placing a few features under a subscription, my app for waking up is the best app I’ve ever come across.

Its called Alarmy and the free version is more than enough to make anyone wake up if they really need to.

Ha! Clever

I’m about ready to start disposing of these fucks.

One factor to keep in mind though, is human productivity only happens at that kind of speed if they (the citizens involved) feel like they are getting something back from the process. And Chinese disillusionment with their own economy is growing.

Like I said, they’d need an agent assigned to a small amount of people. If AI has shown us anything, its that its severely lacking in the “I” part in almost every context.

I feel like its also pretty easily spotted / avoided / defeated, after a very small amount of knowledge about the industry is understood. Unless there’s an Ad-agent assigned to individuals, I can’t see there being an ad targeted towards me that I wouldn’t immediately note as such.

Agreed.

But he’s a sack of shit, so I don’t think too many people will think that hard.

Google is shit, AnySoftKeyboard is what I use.

It was actually cute lol

RIP to the one of the only medics under Picard that ever seemed to know what she was doing.

Fuck Cancer