Sometimes I have to wonder, what’s it going to take to make people leave X?
I mean, it was a shithole even before Musk bought it, 4 years ago, and it’s gotten predictably and steadily worse ever since.
It’s not just twitter, this software is also used by airbnb, linkedin, and paypal.
Now I have to remove LinkedIn - this a good reason! It over reduces my cyber footprint overall. I only have it bc it’s required for a places that I’ve applied about 60-70%.
They did me the favor of removing my account when they asked for my ID “to protect my identity”.
Sound phake! I’m over skeptical of the new real id thing overall so I won’t be bothering with it until the last moment.
It’s a live experiment. How much a platform can enshittify before people leave? We are still going to find it out.
4 years?! Is this purgatory?
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Getting them addicted to something more addictive, like meth.
No way, an Israeli company founded by Israeli spies is spying on people who speak out against Israeli crimes.
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e: Oh, you don’t like it when the ‘Well, acktually’ shoe is on the other foot, 'eh?
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im not the one who downvoted, i upvoted this
My bad, social media reflexes are hard to break :)
My garbage landlord installed an overengineered gate opening mechanism for the parking lot. The system is made by an Israeli firm and you can only open it by using an app that is a privacy nightmare and asks you a ton of personal information (including full name). If you’re dumb enough, there’s also a “feature” to enable tracking your GPS position constantly so the gate opens when you’re near it.
It’s absolute garbage and there was a break in this year because any kid could figure out how to open it. I have no words.
You can’t make this stuff up.
A service requiring users to upload verifiable identification info, created and staffed by literal government spooks. And – what?!? – they’re using said data inappropriately?
On topic, but a side note…this is how come my trust in privacyguides.com tanked a few weeks ago. They fully support X and actually recommend using it. It’s a bunch of sloppy children running that site.
Can you link the privacyguides article? I used to rely on them quite a bit, so this would be disappointing to me. The only recommendations i found for social media are mastodon and element https://www.privacyguides.org/en/social-networks/#posting-content
It’s not an official recommendation from them. They post a lot about how there is nothing wrong with X on their forum.
Source?
I am a former member and had the discussion with the guys in charge over this.
They fully support X and actually recommend using it
So where do they actually recommend people to use twitter?
Is this just a private conversation you had with someone from their org?
It was a public conversation I had on their forum.
Yeah, I’m pressing X to doubt on this one because the website still only recommends Mastodon and Element, and the page literally talks about why federation and decentralized social media is vital to privacy and anti-censorship. They even have people in the forums talking about twitter frontends so you don’t have to actually go to the site. They even purposely try to avoid promoting their accounts on centralized media, the footer of every page only shows Mastodon, Matrix, Peertube, and Bluesky.
It’s privacyguides.ORG btw. Are you thinking of privacytools.io?
I’m talking about the site I wrote about but had the .com wrong. I was an active member there, and had it out with Jonah about X
Real people are still on X? I thought it was mainly bots and twats now
Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.
Israel shares all their spyware data with the US and UK. Basically they let Israel do all the illegal stuff as a legal (actually illegal but they don’t care) loophole.
I have yet to read this book, but The Palestine Laboratory is supposed to outline how a lot of the surveillance and weaponry used today are first developed and tested in Israel to aid the occupation, then exported to other countries.
Right and also many western police/military receive training from (former) IDF soldiers. Seems like Israel is the blueprint for the future of our countries.
Not part of 5 eyes?
@dessalines weird to see their Wikipedia page reads like an ad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AU10TIX
Where is your NPOV now NATOpedia?
Good excuse to get editing :)
I have brought NPOV back to several pages that clearly had been polished up by marketing firms. Thankless work, but always rewarding to destroy some astroturfing company’s work
Even on Lemmy people think Wikipedia isn’t shit.
It can’t be trusted.It wildly depends on the articles/topic, but yes, it’s generally not trustworthy. Especially anything politics or corporate, but sometimes articles on objective topics can have issues.
Said someone who’s never tried to edit an article. They watch that shit like a hawk and require sources for everything, if not they’ll revert your changes.
That’s garbage.
There have been plenty instances where articles were manipulated.Said someone who’s never tried to edit an article.
I tried to edit an article that contained blatant falsehood, my change instantly got reverted, I got banned, and a group of editors tried to dox me. You’re right that they watch it like a hawk, but only to make sure nobody corrects their bullshit.
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US backed terrorist organisation
Across the world, from conservative Japanese accounts to American conspiracy theorists, anonymous users are reporting that data from Google Trends shows their real names, not divulged anywhere online, are being mass searched in Israel.
How could this be happening? Some laid the blame at Au10tix’s door. “Only Au10tix and X holds my data obtained from ID verification,” wrote one user in a viral post, adding, “The rumors are absolutely true.”
Emphasis mine. How are people this fucking stupid? VERIFYING YOUR ID IS DIVULGING YOUR REAL NAME.
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Wow, that’s odd… I never heard about a service that set up alerts for when your own name being googled. Wait, these people are putting their personal name in Google Trends?
Hear me out: probably not a great idea to even throw your name into trends
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That is a scary organization to exists.
