Bazoogle @ Bazoogle @lemmy.world

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The creator did an AMA on [redacted] and said that the site was initially just a side project, so the name didn't matter. However, it started to get some traction. Then people knew it by that name, so it felt too late to change it. Now it's way too late, so that's the name

You use the term "you" a lot here. This is an old post, so you're not going to be talking to the actual person that experienced this

Realistically, the only thing we can do is make sure people understand to a certain extent what privacy they are giving up, what that can mean for them, and what are their options to increase privacy (both practical and advanced, for those that want to know). If they fully understand what it means and they truly don't care about their privacy, there is nothing that can be done.

Though I think most people care about their privacy when it comes to physical privacy. Nobody wants a stranger looking over their should at their phone screen. How many people would care if someone were sitting further with binoculars looking at the screen? Would people not care if they have their physical space, or would people care more about the fact that someone is watching what they're doing? Let's say anytime you got on the subway, it was guaranteed someone was always watching over your shoulder (tbf they might be), would you give up riding the subway? Some might, but I feel like people would make the compromise of their privacy for the convenience of the service. The only realistic way to get them to not take the subway would be to give them a private option that is just as practical. Otherwise, people would often give up the privacy for convenience.

Why are you signing your messages ~Bazoogle

Honestly, I feel like it's from technological incompetence. These people don't understand how a basic website works. They think facebook is entirely on their phone. Which, don't get me wrong, there isn't really anything wrong with an older person not understanding how it works. But it's entirely different when you're the one responsible for making decisions on laws involving technology.

Technology is developing at mach speed, and the government has a pack of snails pulling it forward. Couple that with many of the people making decisions being ancient, and you have laws that are not even close to matching our technology. Shoot, even photography laws are outdated. In the US, photography laws are practically non-existent. The only laws that apply to people taking pictures are trespassing laws. If you're allowed to stand there, and you can see it, you can take a picture. Laws weren't really needed when cameras weren't in every single persons pocket all the time.

You were saying in the example of the government requesting the data. That's not any different for reddit or Lemmy. If anything, it would be harder to get from Lemmy since it's decentralized. And reddit is known to comply with government warrants.

Almost is the keyword. You'd still save a few bucks

Sure, but that doesn't change the cost of the liquid. It's a direct comparison of the price of 1ml for each product. That's not a problem, that's just the cost of the liquid. People do the same thing with different metals, rocks, and whatever else you want to compare the price of.

They could already do that with Reddit. Is that something that happens?

What fucking idiot wrote this? Looking at your own code from 6 months ago

You know you can be a liberal and still own a gun, right? And sure, most liberals don't want Joe from off the street to walk in and buy a gun with no further investigation, but most don't want to ban weapons outright. Guns should be in the right hands, in the right circumstances. You talk as if believing the the 2nd amendment immediately makes you conservative.

But couldn't that have come from the few moderators that did actually suck?

Okay, yea, that does make sense. I was thinking of electronic votes, in which case there wasn't much stopping them from storing that data. But you can get a paper ballet where your name isn't on it. Regardless, actual voting isn't a good analogy. You can change your vote on an internet forum, you cannot with a ballet.

Let's say on lemmy, up or down vote, it reported "Bazoogle has voted" and simply adds a number to the variable without my name tied to it. If I wanted to undo my vote, it wouldn't know whether to subtract an up vote or down vote unless it knew which one I did in the first place. The only other option would be to try and encrypt the username with some sort of identifier that can't easily be decrypted. Which might be possible, but is beyond my current knowledge of cybersecurity.

You don't publicly announce it, but the government still knows it's you who voted. Except in this case the site is open source. Knowing who voted is the only way to prevent vote manipulation.

Based on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, they cannot discriminate for any reason that is a protected status. However, they can makeup any reason for not serving them. That means some racist asshole could say they aren't serving the black customer because they were rude or some other made up shit. Thankfully, your political stance is not a protected status.

Correction: While there is a syntax error, that's actually not the problem. The problem was uBlock origin. Disable it and it should work. I had it on desktop and mobile, so I guess that makes sense

I have no problem on firefox for windows. Maybe click it a few times to see if that changes anything?

You don't have to use the third party apps to know what reddit is doing is fucked up. I never used a third party app, nor did I use a moderation bot. Not to mention people could never have used Reddit before and still use lemmy