Great explanation, thankyou!

Hard agree. My point was that the “safety” premise would be unworkable politically if so many people didn’t just let young kids loose with unrestricted smartphones in the first place.

I can’t help but think this could have been avoided if people would take some responsibility and turn on parental controls for their kids. 90% of the shit they’re trying to “protect the children” from would be invisible and they wouldn’t have this trojan horse stuffed with fascism.

I thought I was the only one pondering on this. It’s been a wild ride and I’m so glad I got to take part in the 90s, when web 1.0 was wild and free. What a blast that was.

But it’s over now, we’ve ruined it, like we ruin everything, and I hope soon we’ll all be collectively ready as a species to dance on the grave of our dead internet.

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The irony of Lemmy not letting me post this until I turned off my VPN 😖

I don’t know enough to know whether this is a dumb suggestion - but could web3 / blockchain hold some of the answers?

This has happened to me on several apps when I signed up while using a (paid) VPN

I hate big phones too. Pixel 8 is small enough to use one handed if you have a ring on the back of the case. Fingerprint scanner is absolutely ABYSMAL tho. Really, utterly terrible.

Excellent points 👍

I meant the ones made out of meat 😛

Shhh 🤫 grownups are talking.

I just don’t get why people want to use social media for relentlessly spreading and talking about news or politics. I go online to escape reality / normies and their endless petty rage and negativity and self loathing. Is nowhere sacred?!

People who care about decentralisation, privacy and data sovereignty etc are usually smart enough to understand that endless feeds of short form video is the new asbestos. You’d have better luck selling big macs to vegans.

I got so fed up with Neostore mishandling updates and sending me constant notifications about it that I’ve uninstalled and gone with Droidify instead.

So since they only just seem to have discovered this, does that mean this invisible extension also likely to be present on Chromium based browsers such as Brave and Thorium etc…?

I’ve been wanting to leave the Google ecosystem for years but Maps was always the thing that kept me there. Thanks Google for freeing me at last!

I have a 4a running graphene and I love it but after 3+ years the battery life is shot. I really didn’t want to buy any of the new pixels because they are all too big and I hate big phones. I was thinking of just buying a new 4a and installing graphene again (because got forbid making a phone where you can just swap out the battery in this day and age) but are you saying this would be a bad idea at this point? Like even if they keep graphene up to date the phone will still be outdated (and therefore vulnerable) at the kernel/hardware level?

SlutGPT

Nah I’m good for Linux ISOs and open source textbooks, just wasn’t aware that some of these media players had a shuffle button 😝 thanks folks!

I suppose I meant to say “end to end encryption”. It’s no secret that it’s been under attack from the top down for a long time but from my understanding the legislation keeps getting shot down. This seems like a perfect workaround unless I’m missing something.