The whole brutal death metal community is NSFW because if the album covers, and I don't wanna flash my face to that platform just for the music I enjoy listening

Any free alternatives for YouTube?

YouTube is the only one left for me as well and I’ve been considering Nebula myself. One thing I do try to avoid though is all of the rage bait stuff. I actively filter it out and focus only on videos that teach me things. So a lot of science, food, carpentry, and other crafty kind of channels and videos. Oh, and a lot of animal ones.

"They already have all my data anyway"

It’s true. There’s a whole chunk of mainstream users that won’t think twice about it. I don’t blame them though. Most people aren’t educated on the negatives and our government and tech oligarchs aren’t about to teach them. I work in tech and am terminally online, so I’m acutely aware of this stuff.

I remember reading about a teen who gave a random website her social security number to get 75% off. She was confused why it was such a big deal. She saved $500!

hey it's big dan halfbyte

yeah doesnt everybody have to send the mods one every few weeks??

Uh. I had a very lovely chat with someone, then I looked at their profile and saw many different angles of their dick. I was hoping to discover new subs and I discovered their dick instead. I’m not checking out your profile.

But the president is a pedofile protector, it doesn't make any sense!

To fight terrorists

Some of them they don't even ask anymore. When you enter the US at certain ports of entry now they scan everyone as you walk up and they won't even ask to see your passport because they know who you are and will just wave you through. Because that's not fucking creepy at all.

I just say "no facial" which usually gets a smirk.

Oh for sure I just wouldn't want anyone having my face scan personally. I'd love to have a law passed that designated biometric data as personal property requiring a warrant or explicit consent to collect.

I would posit that the government is even worse for handling this data. See recent FBI hack and not as recent OPM hack.

Sadly, that government body pays private companies (palantier, cough cough) on the back end. They combine the data with a gazillion other datasets paid for by taxpayers. Since this is what they call "model training" you can't unring that bell from that point on. Immutable data on an evil corporation's dataset, for as long as data can be stored.

without telling me you’re from the US.

I... mentioned the US in my comment?

Are Americans the only non-EU nationals that have to go through EES biometrics when traveling into EU/Schengen zone? I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

Now, I wouldn't be surprised if many Americans don't know we've been doing this to non-US nationals visiting the US for years via our US-VISIT program.

Always wondered about this, if they receive a GDPR request from you do they have to delete others tagged pictures of you and your contact details? I mean it is your personal data technically.

https://help.id.me/...

Policy goes into effect end of the month.

Yeah, it's hard to find a friend irl who happen to use pixelfed instead of Instagram

I am locked out of the interface otherwise. I know it's a stupid thing to use Instagram in the first place

Sell. They sell them to bad actors on the internet. Shareholders would never let them give it away for free.

Are you implying the democratic party is left? It's not.

Some people on Lemmy are retarded. They think saying things without justifying it means that people should care.

Nothing. There is a large contingent of anti Proton misinformation bots and uninformed laymen on Lemmy.

If you dig too much into it, it invariably ends up with a bunch of hearsay, very little to no evidence, and misunderstanding of rudimentary functions of the internet and international law.

First off, proton accepts blacklists as doctrine, even though israel is in it.

Second, they removed a bunch of accounts the US demanded they remove, without cause. Proton is GARBAGE! They are the enemy.

What I can tell you is that there are several dozen blacklists, and proton takes them at face value, with no appeal option, even though Israel puts their critics on there.

Ha ha ha, yeah, like I have the ability to fight back from the devil.

Check out NymVPN. Far superior.

Proton is not the only game in town. Proton is ziocuck garbage. There are others.

I mean...they already have thousands of images and video on us. Not saying we should give it to them willingly but yeah we have already been cooked. If they wanted to generate a video of you doing illegal things they could and youd be jailed in an instant.

Thats why on the surface its good to pretend to support the maga regime so youre not on their radar. Then dismantle it from underneath. Thats how I look at it.

Proton are an ai company because they have their own ai, they also have the most ridiculous brand fans.