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Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands | The Verge
Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backupsFri Feb 21 18:25:57 2025 - permalink -- https://www.theverge.com/news/617273/apple-removes-encryption-advanced-data-protection-adp-uk-spying-backdoor
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The Ghosts in the Machine | MetaFilter
It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.Fri Dec 20 20:44:31 2024 - permalink -
I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture- https://www.metafilter.com/206804/The-Ghosts-in-the-Machine
a all among and artists as audio audio. between connections continue cracks critical culture discounted discourage dumbification easily eroding feel financial happening I improving in interest is It just listeners margins media. more music not of process profit services slip slow slowly so stock streaming the The their this through to types users -
Addicted to love: how dating apps ‘exploit’ their users | Online dating | The Guardian
dating apps, which have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times worldwide, are “exploitative” and are designed not to be deleted but to be addictive, to retain users in order to create revenueSun Nov 3 08:30:18 2024 - permalink -- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/03/addicted-to-love-how-dating-apps-exploit-their-users
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Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, FTC finds | Technology | The Guardian
Social media and online video firms are conducting ‘vast surveillance’ on users, FTC findsFri Sep 20 09:02:22 2024 - permalink -
Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/19/social-media-companies-surveillance-ftc
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What does it mean that hundreds of thousands of players are clicking on a banana? - Sherwood News
Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or notSat Aug 3 13:11:15 2024 - permalink -- https://sherwood.news/tech/hundreds-of-thousands-of-players-banana-clicker-game-egg-steam/
10% a about and are as between bots but buying care Clicker content. developers don't down earning elements every game games human humans if is it's likely long microtransactions not nothing of or players playing product sale so stripping StupidFucksAward the They're to trading users which why Zeitgeist “Banana” -
Linus Torvalds: “Do No Harm”
Linus ist der Beste: "Wed Nov 22 10:58:36 2017 - permalink -
Because if you as a security person just piss off users, and piss off
developers, I'm not going to take your work, and I'm going to call you
a bad security person"- https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/356
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Dear iPhone 6 users, welcome to 2012! - 9GAG
Dear iPhone 6 users, welcome to 2012Wed Sep 10 11:46:58 2014 - permalink -- http://9gag.com/gag/a2Pd4bw
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Here's A World Map Adjusted for Each Country's Internet Population
heatmap: internetnutzer pro landMon Oct 14 09:41:20 2013 - permalink -- http://gizmodo.com/heres-a-world-map-adjusted-for-each-countrys-internet-1443568309?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29
