It should simply be considered false advertisement.
You can probably legally require your money back, saying it looks nothing like the photos, but that’s not enough imo
It should simply be considered false advertisement.
You can probably legally require your money back, saying it looks nothing like the photos, but that’s not enough imo
Quite a significant change, when 1 km2 is about 140 (real) football fields
I was never really on Digg, even though I was on the Internet since the early 00’s, but yeah, everything dies eventually.
Can’t think of anything aside from some obscure message boards that still exist today.
Reddit could suffer a 50% user drop and still make bank, but that won’t happen within the decade.
Boost for Lemmy is coming though
No, I don’t think there is a “not insignificant” number of people who would jump ship. We’re literally just a few nerds who dislike the monolithic corporate structure and care about privacy. Stop pretending the whole world is in the same boat. It’s turning into a weird tinfoil conspiracy.
It’s fine that we like it here, and I’m glad that we have an alternative, but people need to wake up and realize this isn’t some huge activist movement where we’re pwning “the man”. They don’t give two shits about these dumbass protests. They will do whatever necessary to continue growing and earning money. So stop giving a shit about them, stop talking about reddit, and just be happy users have the power with Lemmy.
Stop kidding yourselves… Reddit isn’t dying. It’s growing.
0.5% of users turned to Lemmy while the rest bent over.
Either way whining about it won’t help
The equivalent of being broken up with, then posting daily on Facebook about your ex and contacting all her friends to tell them he’s/she’s the bad one
I’m sure they’re hating that 1% of their users is spamming /r/place with bot visits, but I think you have to realize that there’s no “fight” to be won and reddit definitely isn’t facing any type of demise.
If you like Lemmy, help improve it and stop talking about reddit.
In my understanding, the metrics tracked by just having Google Play services are pretty minimal.
It’s more like an API between your phone and apps you install through it, and the permission system for apps has improved immensely over the past 5-10 years. As I see it, it’s more like a firewall.
If you don’t want Google to know which apps you use and how much, you can go full custom, but that’s a bit too much tinfoil for me.
The tracking is mostly from web browsing. If you use Google Chrome, of course you can expect to be tracked based on browser history, cookies, etc., like most other browsers.
If I wanna do something in private, obviously I won’t use Chrome or a builtin browser.
There are lots of privacy oriented Android flavors out there. Most of them won’t come with Google Play services installed. Any of them will be able to run any apps you need.
In my opinion, Google isn’t bad at all when it comes to tracking and bloatware. They’re much like Apple. It’s the branded phones like Samsung that are absolutely horrible.
Anyway, check out the LineageOS Wiki: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
It can give a quick overview of the devices which can easily install a custom ROM (OS). I heard good things about Fairphone
No chance they will block out the entire EU market. They will probably just do the same as everyone else and make a specific EU policy.
Actually I think Meta Threads is still not available in EU for the same reasons.