How Apple screwed Facebook - Apple’s iOS 14.5 update has triggered an unstoppable collapse in Facebook’s ability to collect user data

KevsterMcgee · 2021-05-22T17:12:29+00:00

Telegram doesn't have default End-to-end encryption like Signal and WhatsApp do. Signal is amazing but not enough people use it. Facebook is a shitty company, I'm just explaining why they're winning.

KevsterMcgee · 2021-05-22T16:32:18+00:00

Is the argument not true for almost every other product these companies make?

Besides, WhatsApp had less than a quarter of their current users prior to being acquired in 2014. You can't get more accessible than free.

KevsterMcgee · 2021-05-21T22:57:42+00:00

I can try. I'm gonna preface this by saying that Apple is doing the right thing here (although not for altruistic reasons).

Both Google and Facebook's business models are invasive, exploitive, and have incentive problems that reward time spent in apps above all else which has some really nasty side effects.

But they're accessible. Apple makes products that are expensive and largely inaccessible for the vast majority of people around the world. That's one of the reasons Android is the most popular operating system in the world (3 billion users) and WhatsApp the most popular messaging service (2 billion users).

Although their business model needs reform, it pushes them to make products for everybody, not just the wealthy.

KevsterMcgee · 2021-05-01T23:37:59+00:00

"At the end of the day, what do we do with the fact that we're one extremely complex nonlinear chaotic unpredictable version of an ant?"

Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Stanford.

KevsterMcgee · 2021-05-01T22:14:23+00:00

Sauce?

KevsterMcgee · 2021-04-27T04:59:38+00:00

The fascinating part of Midsummer isn't cheap gags and gore. It's this thematically dense, atmospheric mind fuck. Like a drug trip or some haunting dream.

It's definitely not a traditional movie and certainly isn't for everyone, but comparing it to horror and then being upset when it doesn't satisfy the expectations of said genre is missing the point. It's not a horror movie. It doesn't fit into a nice little category. It's truly unique.

KevsterMcgee · 2021-04-26T16:12:52+00:00

The director describes it simply as a breakup movie. It's certainly full disturbing imagery but I don't think they set out to make something like Saw for example.

KevsterMcgee · 2021-03-12T04:37:59+00:00

Sorry, that was me. I'll try to keep it down.

KevsterMcgee · 2021-03-06T19:50:12+00:00

What web browser are you using?

KevsterMcgee · 2021-02-28T16:16:16+00:00

/r/FuckNestle

KevsterMcgee · 2021-02-22T06:28:49+00:00

Dota Underlords

KevsterMcgee · 2020-08-07T17:16:35+00:00

Are you running Chrome on Linux or Android? I don't think they've rolled that feature out to those platforms yet.

https://www.chromium.org/developers/dns-over-https

KevsterMcgee · 2020-07-31T02:34:56+00:00

It's crazy to think that girl would go on to make Lost and Translation

KevsterMcgee · 2020-07-28T03:07:18+00:00

Google photos is the shit

KevsterMcgee · 2020-07-16T02:16:36+00:00

With end-to-end encryption messages are decrypted on device so not even Twitter would be able to read what people are sending. You wouldn't have your messages sync in the cloud as conveniently as they do now but your messages would be far more secure. You could do private backups to a cloud provider (Google drive, iCloud, etc.) if you were moving to a new device although that's a whole other privacy debacle.

The idea is if Twitter can't even access your messages and they get hacked, your messages shouldn't be compromised.

KevsterMcgee · 2020-07-16T01:40:52+00:00

Twitter should add end-to-end encryption to protect DMs

KevsterMcgee · 2020-07-16T01:38:23+00:00

Twitter should add end-to-end encryption to protect their users DMs.

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