Except sites deliberately break themselves if they can't harvest your data. You can't even browse reddit on Tor anymore.
Even merely using Fennec on my phone, I encounter shopping sites where I actually plan to spend money refuse to work because they can't recognize "my device." Or they refuse to sell me products where I live if I'm using a VPN. Creepy-ass behavior.
I suppose the only way out is through, and we should simply refuse to use sites that are designed in such a way, but it feels like a losing battle.
Has it, though? I grew up in the 80s, and I feel like I simply didn't have a clue how ignorant people were or what batshit things people believed behind closed doors. Even when people disclosed to me their inner narrative, I feel like I just assumed they were joking or using extreme hyperbole.
The internet has made me realize ... they weren't joking. At all. They really believe that shit.
I find it takes no energy to hate him, so I'll continue doing so; but I agree that prison violence should not be glorified, under any circumstances, no matter who is the target. I don't care about Chauvin's wellbeing, but prison violence is yet another symptom of the same systemic issue that caused Chauvin to murder Floyd. ACAB, and so is the entire "justice" system.
Long-term type of romance scam so called because the scammer is "fattening the pig for slaughter," building trust until they have drained the victim of everything they have.
My co-worker goes to google.com and types URLs into the search field, sometimes not even the correct URL (e.g., when she's trying to sign into her Zoom account, she'll search for "zoom.com")
I've tried gently persuading her to try typing it in the address bar, but then she will mistype it and tell me, "See, it's not working!" and I'd like to show her how to use bookmarks and try to make her life a lot easier, but she insists she knows what she's doing and isn't having it.
Sadly, she's also fallen prey to numerous obvious scams, including a pig butchering scam that drained her resources for years.
I'd really like to find a way to teach some basic tech literacy to older people. I've been able to help my parents recognize scams at least, but some people are aggressively unwilling to learn new things.
Not all of us are obese, and the obesity epidemic has more to do with daily overconsumption of calories from things like soda and other sugared beverages than it does with eating cool whip on your pumpkin pie once a year
One of my co-workers does this from her office. I pretend I have really bad hearing and don't ever respond, but she persists.
Thankfully, my husband and I are pretty good about actually approaching each other. If I ever heard my husband call me from another room, I'd know it's an emergency.
I will admit that I used it for years for the rewards, and it worked well for me. Once I started using a VPN though, it decided I could only redeem my rewards in Canada (I live in the US). I could have probably fixed it, but it caused me to have one of those "what am I doing anyway" moments and switch to using a SearXNG instance instead.
Except sites deliberately break themselves if they can't harvest your data. You can't even browse reddit on Tor anymore.
Even merely using Fennec on my phone, I encounter shopping sites where I actually plan to spend money refuse to work because they can't recognize "my device." Or they refuse to sell me products where I live if I'm using a VPN. Creepy-ass behavior.
I suppose the only way out is through, and we should simply refuse to use sites that are designed in such a way, but it feels like a losing battle.