i just want a service that i dont have to hassle with, so this would definitely not be good for me 😅 Also i dont think many places even accept self hosted email as “real”, at least some places dont accept alias addresses.

its so annoying when any decent alternative costs money, which isnt very good thing for my “official” email which i need for important things. Dont want to end up in situation where i get locked out of it because i didnt or couldnt pay for some reason. Though i constantly have to slightly fear that with google too since they can lock anyone’s account for any reason they see fit.

just dont use google? I havent used google search for years now and there hasnt been single time where i would have needed to use google search even once. Though unfortunately i’m still bound to the damn gmail because i cant find better alternative for it.

maybe blocking it is the wrong way to go about though. Instead there should be some way to make the fingerprinting data worthless by having everyones browser constantly change things in the background so the fingerprint changes too

shooting their own feet by escalating unnecessarily. if you are already on most wanted list, all stops go. What are they going to do, put you on most wanted list?

as it is defined in the article

does ANY model reason at all?

Just having such wealth and thus power in hands of singular humans is risk to all of humanity. With musk you are but big enough drug fueled temper tantrum away from pretty important infrastructure coming crashing down.

so in other words, 500m will be spent on whitewashing google’s reputation.

Considering how morally bankrupt humanity still is, this is terrifying possible technology. Imagine people being condemned to “hell” or broken, copied and used as enslaved mind for some robot shell. (I know it still couldnt do anything to you personally, just make copy of you.)

If even death couldn’t bring release from this world, this would be ultimate chain authoritarians could use to permanently control anyone.

messages moderator about it, banned from subreddit for no reason given. Or at least that is how i imagine how it would go

Would opting out actually do anything except keep you from using the feature? Pretty certainly they will still let the ai read your emails if there is any benefit to google in it, but you just wont be seeing the summary.

They feel they can afford incompetence because they know so many people dont have a choice anyway. Any microsoft locked institution for example. If that isnt at least a little evil I dont know what is.

it would feel less evil if win11 wasnt so full of awful and downgraded features.

can’t tell such things nowdays at all. that is why i use /j or /s to clarify if needed

so in a way, ai makes lazy teaching methods more clearly useless since you can just generate essays

but why? more users for linux means better linux support for everything

I thought they specifically planned to end the security updates to force people to use win11

I dont know about other models but I think I have managed to limit how much my phone (fairphone) spies on me quite decently.

I installed application called ReThink, which is basically a firewall and I can block even google services with it. I know it works because its really pain in the ass when I want to use their services like calendar and i have to temporarily unblock it. It can also block ads by completely blocking internet for programs that dont really need it. I have also removed/disabled anything extra and removed permissions to anything that absolutely doesn’t need it. It also alerted me to that stupid google safetycore spyware being installed (by blocking and informing about newly installed program) so i managed to remove that immediately.

At least according to the logs the phone seems secure, since nothing is being allowed to connect anywhere that shouldn’t be allowed. Can’t do much to occasional breaches due to restarts or temporary allowings, but I dont think such sparse information is much use or it might require more effort to utilise.

Its like if there was no law prohibiting stealing if you just do it in certain way, or arson. I wish there was something one would do about it, but its so damn difficult to resist even by saying something should be done about it since vast majority of people simply dont care or dont want to say too much if they do. I wonder if it has always been like this even in the past or if it turned like this at some point.

I made an account over decade ago, never really used it even back then because I was suspicious even then. Then i tried logging in years after that and they demanded passport or some other identification to even let me log in.

So i sent them a picture i drew myself, i would post it here but i dont think i have the file anymore. It was basically like a mockup passport with picture of a clown and a stamp with picture of middle finger. I hoped they would just ban my account or something since that is about best I can hope. They would never abide by gdpr request and even if they say they did there is no way to know if they actually did.