Sure, but I think it's safe to assume your IP is near public information when connecting to any domain.
Okay, this is a fair point, I don't think anyone at any company should have sensitive data open to employees. That'd be as bad as having passwords accessible by X role at the company.
Near meaningless data though. It'd be like if it knew if your keyboard was connected or not. It's hard to use that information.
From what I understand, services use phone numbers because it's harder for bot accounts to be spammed. Whether they allow themselves to go beyond that is up to the company. Even Counter-Strike and Valorant, competitive games in general, do this to curb the automated userbase.
Everything everywhere I connect to has my IP, oh no.
It's not plaintext if it's encrypted..
So like cookies but for an application, not that intrusive imo.
"You may be required to verify your account with a phone number" - I provided a phone number once and they've never, at any point, sent me anything or asked me to use it. You could easily use a burner phone.
Even thinking about a company like Google seems like more of a privacy nightmare. This is relatively tame compared to most everything else.
Yeah, sure, complain about it if you want to, it just doesn't make sense if you've already given them the data. I like Signal for privacy but it doesn't have any customization, no personalization, no personality, it's nearly sterile. It does it's job and that's it. Great for people who want privacy for like.. work but for just talking to friends Discord seems more enjoyable.
I haven't scraped the terms of service to see exactly what kind of data they collect but I'm not extremely worried about it. I don't put sensitive information into it beyond my payment information for Nitro. I'm sure everyone here on Lemmy, a self-host and open source site/software, is against programs like Discord because they're proprietary but I personally just enjoy it and don't find it very limiting.
Ah right, so it's fine if it's a privacy nightmare but combined with ads, woah there. If you're right, they already have your data. If you don't use it, why even complain?
This is just Netflix all over again. If you don't want to pay for Nitro, watch ads. If you don't like ads, find the door. I don't get why people normalize freeloading online services and get pissy when they have to pay for what they use. Servers cost money. Pitch in with ads, data, or a subscription.
Otherwise go do your open-source self hosted and P2P programs, they all have the same problem. Reliability.
Yeah god forbid anyone pay for the shit they use, just keep hopping around to suck the life out of every 'free' service there is. Nitro is right there.
Jan 6th was a conspiracy. Notice all those Trump hats? Antifa in disguise. Surely no Republican that came directly from a Trump rally walked down the street to the capitol.
When I was riding my bike as a kid maybe 15 years ago I found like $15 in 5s and almost immediately used it to buy ice cream. Best tasting ice cream I ever had.
Lol there's this cute thing called boot camp every branch goes through. It knocks out 80% of your identity and if you were ever in the military you'd know you're not allowed to have political opinions and damn sure not allowed to voice them. You are a tool. An instrument of the government. The military is not siding with you dumb fucking rednecks cosplaying as militia. You will get steamrolled like the domestic terrorists you are.
PLEASE go test out how effective that second amendment is. Go into any US fort, armed, and see how far you get. I'm begging.
That's wild because twice now I've said to you that I feel bad for her and it sucks but it's a distraction from the horrors quite literally from the other side of the border. I am not going to morun a paper cut in front of someone missing their leg. I am not going to stop and express great loss to someone who survived their attack in front of someone who lost loved ones to the same kind of attack.
The people who are overly concerned about this woman are the ones trying to use her story as a smokescreen against the atrocities their side have committed. The "Hamas did a bad thing!! Don't pay attention to the IDF doing the same thing exponentially more times! Listen to how bad her story is!"
The dead can't speak. They can't relive their trauma because they're gone. Extinguished. Stop missing the forest for the trees and start looking at the broader context. But you know, you're right, you've helped me realize maybe I don't give a shit about her story because she's choosing to use that story as propaganda. Thanks, Aragorn. Fuck that woman and her problems. I choose to believe that only the inhumane would placate to these small stories while the victims of true abuse have no voice. Buried under the rubble of their homes, losing their lives wishing for nothing more than to just live a little longer.
If there is even a glimmer of humanity left it is not with the IDF. It is not with Israel. And it most certainly is not with the people who try to defend them. There is no middle ground to this conflict, my friend. You are either a monster or are fighting them.
"You're braindead if you think the military would pick one way or the other."
"[...] to protect against all enemies foreign and domestic." They're not American citizens, they're terrorists. Insurgents. You clearly have no fucking idea how the game is played, dipshit. The military sides with the military.
Your entire fucking reason for why the government can't erase your dumb ass is that" they're American citizens!!" like that has ever stopped them in any situation, ever. Actual fucking retard.
Sure do, that's why my first comment said it was sad and sucks for her but knowing there are at least a dozen more Palestinian women who were also raped, whose names will never be known to the world, who didn't get to go on television and talk about it, who were killed afterwards as they likely begged for their lives, who were then rolled into a fucking mass grave. It makes it really, really hard to care about this woman and her problems.
I'm not going to let her unfortunate situation overshadow the extreme brutality happening to the Palestinians. Not any longer.
Yeah, fuck me, it's almost like trying to quell an insurgency on foreign land where every time you murder a terrorist you make more because those terrorists had families and lived in communities. It's almost like that's unconventional warfare where the only way to win is by committing a genocide (which we can absolutely do but choose not to, you little fuckin goober).
We didn't 'lose' Vietnam, Afghanistan, nor Iraq. The government decided it wasn't worth occupying the land any further and had become too costly. You really fuckin think the government is going to just throw their hands up and go "Awe shucks, guess we gotta give up our own land to the hicks with assault rifles." No you fuckin cabbage, they'll roll out tanks and APCs from the military bases 15 miles in any direction with full kit and put your dumb ass in your own bed and tuck you in.
You are giga fucked in the head if you think for even a solitary second domestic martial law with the combined force of all military branches is anywhere near as difficult as shipping that same hardware halfway around the world to places that don't want you there. All shit the founding fathers couldn't comprehend because going from one landmass to another was still a multi-month journey and not everyone would survive it.
The government only loses when it kills so many of us we can't make it enough money to put gas in the F-35 raptors.
What data? Who bought it? Do you have a single fact to back that up?