ABP has that stinky practice of marking ads as “acceptable” (basically those companies pay ABP to be on their “allowlist”).

As has already been mentioned - stop using ABP, and use uBO instead. It’s a lifesaver.

Are there e-readers with very very dim light that still allow comfortable reading?

I have not used any myself, but I have heard that both Kindle e-reader and Kobo support this.

“Hey, I just tried to break into my school principal’s room on a weekend to change my exam grade - because, you know, bad grades don’t look good on me - BUT WHY IS THIS BEING MADE INTO SUCH A TOPIC ???”

To provide “personal recommendation”, an App would most likely need to profile you, i.e. track your viewing habits and trends, and forecast your areas of interests.

IMO this goes directly against the concept of privacy.

On the brighter side, I think Freetube (local, on windows) and LibreTube (on Android, but needs a piped account) can provide personalized video suggestions, but you yourself should check them out.

I am also a former Jerboa user and although I kinda liked it - the sole reason that I moved away from it was the lack of a proper search feature (It is already well-known that the Search bar in Jerboa is basically only for communities; Jerboa can’t search for posts, comments or users.

I have lately been using Eternity - and the main reason is that Eternity is a fork of Infinity for Reddit, and Infinity was a complete app by its own merit - so although Eternity is not updated frequently, it is very unlikely that I will miss any essential feature in Eternity for Lemmy.

Just my 0.02.

Tesla should recall Musk, for good.

I don’t exactly recall when or where I heard/read this quote, but man it is dope

• “it should not be a concern when people pirate your content, it should be when people don’t even want to pirate your content”

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Right. The same goes for clothes that you wear - you don’t really feel the fabric on your skin unless you really pay attention.

Elon Musk is an antisemite. What can anyone do about it?

Make him take off his pants and sit on a lighted Menorah.

and every single one of my friends created accounts and hopped on to chat rooms

FOMO and Privacy usually do not mix well. Unless you can come out of “All my friends are doing it, so it must be cool” mindset, you will find it difficult to appreciate privacy.

You yourself said

and that social life also includes the use of social media apps

Note the keyword “includes”. So Social Life is not JUST social media apps. As someone mentioned already, dating starts best with face to face interactions.

Have you tried the good old phone number exchange, may be to try out texting?

Lastly, if someone wants to understand the real me based on my Instagram profile and activities - I would stay away from that person. YMMV.

“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”

• Mark Twain

Google needs to be broken up at least as much as the oil and railroad companies did a century ago.

This is probably the biggest truth right now, and applies to almost all the big tech corps.

However, I would probably trust a provider more if there has been an actual case where police tried getting the logs and the VPN provider gave them nothing

That literally is what happened with Mullvad.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/mullvad-vpn-hit-with-search-warrant-in-attempted-police-raid

I know. It’s Extremely Infuriating. But I found only one community for Extremely Infuriating that appears to be a ghost town.

Which is why I posted this here.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned in the 224 (so far) comments… but another bad guy worth hating is

Hewlett Packard.

Their

“Hey, you need to have our proprietary ink cartrige in your HP inkjet printer plus scanner to print AND to scan as well. The scanner won’t work when you are out of ink”

Is just plain fuckery.

Over zoom I hope…

I am waiting for the day when governments will have had enough of him (unless he bought those governments because that fucker is fucking rich) - and “Elon Musk” becomes “Felon Musk”.

Thanks bro. Here’s two more Bad Stevies…

I am sure there are good Steves out there, but first spez and then this waste of oxygen ? Cursed Steves !! /s