resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@dl @dredmorbius Good points. #Reddit is the "no politics diner" in my experience. You get a dozen moderators and it becomes a race to the bottom with #censorship coupled with #shadowbanning to hide the censorship.

@randynose @oilyfish I also recall Uber doing some sneaky shit like poaching staff from competitors to steal trade secrets.

@randynose @oilyfish Lyft has better ethics due to its progressive positions: https://www.kqed.org/news/11643681/lyft-gains-on-uber-by-appealing-to-progressive-political-ideals

@oilyfish @randynose https://money.cnn.com/2015/05/15/technology/uber-celluride-lawsuit/index.html

@oilyfish @randynose I've not, but Uber is a shit company bent on right-wing politics. Drivers often drive for both, and if you ask them they tend to be less happy with Uber -- which isn't too surprising considering right-wing principles have little regard for work conditions.

@Mojeek one search engine that cators for this need is searxes.eu.org.

@Mojeek actually I prefer biased results. I want search results that respect privacy. That means I need a search engine that does not lead to #CloudFlare sites. I am biased against sites that disregard #netneutrality & privacy, and I want my search results to cater for my bias.

@strypey @JordiGH Ubuntu needs a name change.

@dl
That's a good example of "tragedy of the commons". But I think the tragedy can be limited by consumers who realize they have a duty to #boycott bad players.

@dredmorbius @temporal

@dredmorbius @temporal
Great article.. very comprehensive. But he did miss one point:

* #advertising is an arms race. A supplier may not want to spend money on ads, but is forced when a competitor does so.

@thegibson
Some people refuse to vote over this. Many states *publish* the physical address & party affiliation of all registered voters. #Amazon likely has the IP - physical address pairings.. lots of possibilities here, none of which are good for #democracy.

@eff We also need to fight #Amazon #Ring along with this.. they go hand-in-hand.

#banRing

@dredmorbius I can't see your reply because it's on a #CloudFlare site.

@leip4Ier@infosec.exchange
It's very disturbing that this code exists. First, it helps victims of #Google's #CAPTCHA help Google. We should #boycott CAPTCHA not solve more of them. This s/w undermines the boycott.

It's also disturbing that it's #freesoftware, b/c we can no longer criticise CAPTCHA pushers for imposing #nonfreesoftware. It defeats a strong argument that CAPTCHA fighters had. Or does it still run Google's proprietary j/s?

@oilyfish
one case I can see for an URL shortener is when using the #bitlbee client. It can't see your msg as you type it, so it has no way of predicting what the server will do in order to adjust the character count.

@oilyfish
I thought URL shortening was built into the #Mastodon server. If you enter an URL, you should see that the number of characters deducted from your allowance is less than the number of characters in the URL.

I can't suggest an URL shortener but I will say that #tinyurl is the worst of them b/c of the #netneutrality abuse of #CloudFlare. All 3rd party URL shorteners (e.g. bit.ly) abuse #privacy to some extent (it's how they make money).

@oilyfish
I can't follow your #tinyURL links because it imposes the great wall of #CloudFlare, which blocks #Tor users.

@Br0m3x @Tusky yikes. Why would it? We know creators of the #Mastodon network disregard the #privacy & #netneutrality abuses of #CloudFlare (after all, they're behind mastodon.social), but is #Tusky made by the same people? I just don't see why the app would use CF. Is it perhaps executing CF javascript?

@mplammers @JamieLBarnett BTW, #Signal has lots of privacy issues (see this famous thread: https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/779). And DDG only pretends to be good for privacy; searxes.eu.org is better for privacy.