The fact that the ad revenue button is more emphasized and easier to press (closer to screen edge) says a lot about the value of you being their product vs. you simply paying them for access.
that's a shitload of lines of math to write out/work in your head. I learned percentages of x as:
6 * 45 / 100 = x (2.7)
If you picture both as fractions, you multiply the opposite and then divide by the other number to get the missing one (x). Hopefully Lemmy renders this well...
6
x
100
45
The way I learned it was multiply diagonally and then divide by whatever is opposite diagonally to x.
I don’t care as long as the result isn’t less secure or less private than iMessage is now. Google has zero percent of my trust at this point, on the privacy front.
I find it quite dubious their claim of it blocking posts from friends, vs. ads. Friends don't post ads, so if it's blocking posts, they are inserting ads colored up as "friend posts".
Is abortion illegal in the UK? I know they have some things backwards, but I thought the US led the world on the insanity of divide on this particular topic.
Getting off social media and replacing Chrome with Firefox. Also uBlock Origin, NextDNS, and moving my IoT devices onto their own network so they can't spy on my trusted devices (and NextDNS blocks their telemetry).
Yeah, I've had similar experiences when requesting account deletions for services. Basically "we are under no legal mandate to delete your data, get bent", because I'm not lucky enough to be protected by GDPR or California law.
Site owner and whomever in marketing wrote that. Pure psychopathy, IMO.