Google sucks so bad that I switched to Bing. BING!

“AI is the hot new selling point, not foldables.“

I doubt any of those were a selling point for most people.

Try captchas

Great! Now they can sell my grandma an HDMI cable in 50 installments!

90% of products in amazon are just marked up temu products lmao

Right, like a router can unencrypt and read what’s on the link. This is just IP blocks which will never work lol.

God forbid people who are poor have access to food, water and entertainment

Email is also unencrypted

LET’S LAY THEM OFF. If everyone is unemployed we can actually work on eating the rich

Subpoenaing Reddit for user records because some guy emulated a videogame made for your crappy handheld console.

NO it’s because of the excellent customer service

On the contrary. If I’m paying double the price on a flagship compared to 8 years ago, then I want more features not less.

On Android try NewPipe, but dont expect algorithm recommendations, just the main trending pages. Same for iOS use “unwatched”

Exactly this. People shit on the Chinese companies, but the American ones just rip us off with the same product.

You do see ads, you just don’t realize it. There are multiple 1-2 minute videos on your feed usually with the title “Introducing [insert product]” and these are product placements that YouTube is very well aware of. They also had the audacity to tell me that these are ads but they don’t “interfere” with me watching videos. So, they are injecting ads into premium subscriber feeds already. Disgusting company.

Matter sucks ass

You’d be surprised to see how many common libraries have vulnerabilities every week.

Start with the basics:

• Harden SSH by only allowing public key authentication and use strong keys to authenticate instead of passwords.
• Setup fail2ban (lots of online resources, check Linode guides) to block malicious IPs temporarily.
• If the data you store is something only you should see, then it should not ever be connected to the internet, airgap wherever possible.
• And finally, keep your shit updated.

You talk as if it is yet to happen.

I heavily use both platforms, whatever I talk about or wherever I go, I see targeted ads. When I speak about brand X, I immediately see ads for it both in ios and android. Plus every device mic is being listened to all the time, advertising agencies are your proof. Sure android devices collect more data in practice, however the data that’s not being collected by ios can be inferred from the data that’s already been collected. Do you really believe a company when they say their devices are made to ensure your privacy? Google literally says the same thing on their privacy policies ;) it’s all legal mumbo jumbo that doesn’t mean what it’s supposed to.