Embrace
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Enshittify

Corpos don’t have any morale.

That’s what makes you evil.

Ubuntu is about as close as Linux gets to Windows in data collection in data collection and robbing control from the user.

While Ubuntu does have a worse track record in both departments compared to any other distro, it’s worth noting that neither data collection nor the patronising of users are close to Windows levels. (Your comment might be understood like that.)

Imagine drinking a fancy cocktail - that’s most Linux distros.
Ubuntu is like that, but with a few sprinkles of piss mixed in.
Windows is mostly piss these days, but with a cherry and a little umbrella, and it’s what everyone’s having, so it can’t be that bad - right?

These strange coincidences just keep piling on, eh?

Well, who would have thunk that people would suffer and pedophiles would be enjoying safe havens if we put the Epstein class in charge of the country?

You can lose the ‘yet’. These projects aren’t going to implement this, so we’re good.

No /s required. Knowing Microslop, this is only a matter of time enshittification.

If this truly were about keeping bots off the platform, I’d predict a great improvement in how genAI renders human eyes. Either way: supposed problem not solved, but more sensitive data collected in the process. Task failed successfully.

Well, fork you and fork off!

They need AI to confirm their racism?

Not confirm, but justify. “Hey, it’s not me - it’s this little machine that says you’re subhuman. I’m just doing my job here, man.”

Naw, it’s price of coffee. It’s way too high and needs to be brought down.

Audiobookshelf for Audiobooks. Metube or old-fashioned CD rips to obtain freely available media.

I’m considering several, and haven’t made the decision yet: Matrix/Element, Briar, and Session are all on the table.

Oh, so they’re completely intransparent about what it is they deem “unsafe”? Smh.

Great you found a solution, but it comes at the price of a little convenience. Can you share what other app the banking app was objecting to?

Hey there, I’m happy you like Exodus. It’s a great resource. Actually, the Aurora Store privacy reports are sourced from Exodus.

Feel free to donate to the project.

While centralisation continues to be a problem (as the recent AWS outage has shown), Signal continues to be the a sufficient compromise between privacy and usability that a non-technical user will actually use.

That said, I’m making contingency plans to set up an alternative for close family in case the US goes full retard and makes it inaccessible.

I’ve gone even further back, having mine painted on Greek pottery

Thanks, I hate it!

To the contrary: I’m painfully aware of those. That’s why I run Exodus scans of every single app I install, and stick to FDroid for 95% of my apps. With banking applications, however, that is not an option.