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  • It’s not about what country has it, it’s about that they CAN have it, and what they could do with it.

    We continue to spiral into a dystopian area. To say it won’t happen to you, remember that period tracking apps are being used to track women and arrest them. If I was a Chinese data center grabbing data, this is a nice piece of info to sell and make a profit out of it.

    But what about you? Surely you don’t do anything. But lets think of a hypothetical. Maybe you visit sites in Opera that are anti-Russian, a news site that had a story about Putin shitting his pants. We’ll with all the data stored, they can identify who you are. You’re now on a Russian list of people who hate Russia. Maybe you’ll go, “But I’ll never go to Russia.” But who knows?

    When women were using those apps, they didn’t expect it to be used to get them arrested.

    People who practice good privacy have a significantly less chance of getting shit on. So why not?







  • My main issue is that it doesn’t provide any real value.

    If I see a Guardian/BBC news article about international events, I’ll give it a lot of trust. But when it’s talking about England, my eyebrows are raised. Calling it Left/right/center doesn’t help a reader understand that.

    Worse it hot garbage like The Daily Mail. They have no fact check or provide real journalism. It means nothing to me what it aligns to.

    Then the bottom of the barrel is some random news site that was spun up a month ago like Freedom Patriot News. Of course we know where it lands in the political spectrum. But it’s extreme propaganda.

    The challenge here is that trust has become subjective. Conservatives don’t trust CNN. Democrats don’t trust Fox News. It becomes difficult to rate the quality of the organization in a binary way.