Cristi Constantin 🕸 @croqaz@social.privacytools.io

Signal Is a Government Op - https://yasha.substack.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op-85e

Dear Spotify: don’t manipulate our emotions for profit

Take a stand against Spotify
's recent speech-recognition patent that claims to detect “emotional state, gender, age, or accent” to recommend music.

Music services shouldn't be using covert surveillance in their products.

https://www.accessnow.org/spotify-tech-emotion-manipulation/

Delete Chrome. Now.

Google is using its exceptionally powerful position to make *the browser itself* analyze your browsing behavior and serve that on a plate in the form of "cohorts" to anyone interested.

They are transforming Chrome into a "browsing-history-passport" - right now.

If you care about your intellectual freedom even a little bit, you must put Chrome out of your life as soon as possible. Support others doing the same.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

#DeleteChrome

DeepL is a great (German!) alternative to Google Translate. They just added support for 13 new European languages! 👏

https://deepl.com/translator

Have I Been Facebooked? - https://haveibeenfacebooked.com/

A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge - https://www.wired.com/2014/10/a-spreadsheet-way-of-knowledge/

Zoomable lens without any moving parts - https://medium.com/extremetech-access/mit-creates-zoomable-lens-without-any-moving-parts-87286a791047

Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Programming Language - https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/

Software development is a loser’s game - https://thehosk.medium.com/software-development-is-a-losers-game-fc68bb30d7eb

Apple, Google Both Track Mobile Telemetry Data, Despite Users Opting Out - https://threatpost.com/google-apple-track-mobile-opting-out/165147/

Hello, HPy - https://hpyproject.org/blog/posts/2021/03/hello-hpy/

The fingerprint inside your photos - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210324-the-hidden-fingerprint-inside-your-photos

Buildings made with fungi could live, grow – and then biodegrade - https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/what-on-earth-mycelium-fungi-building-1.5963938

Molar City - https://hazlitt.net/longreads/molar-city

Why Microsoft Wants Discord - https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/26/22352028/microsoft-discord-acquisition-analysis-report

Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store - https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/issues/102

Disappointed that #Cloudflare released their new browser isolation product with zero screen reader accessibility. https://blog.cloudflare.com/browser-isolation-for-teams-of-all-sizes/ I advised them of the need to pay special attention to accessibility in this product over a year ago. This is going to hurt blind employees, and prospective employees, when IT departments start rolling this out. I'm not one to stir up social media outrage lightly, but I think we need to make Cloudflare regret that they ignored this.