Did anyone tell the WhatsApp users?

Thank-you for that question ..

Thanks for the dirty ticks reference. That's going to be fun to read! May give me an idea.

Much of my browsing these days is on account-based web pages and apps, so it's unavoidable, but I use addy.io to avoid a single email address and try not to enter any identifying data like full name; and use one-time credit cards. I do what I can to minimise anything resembling a tracking file being on my PC for any length of time if it is downloaded at all (pi-hole, uBlock Origin, cookie autodelete, VPN, i2p, blah blah), but it's a losing battle as we all know.

I'm trying to only interact with LLMs locally, and be generic with my queries for Perplexity (my current fav engine). With LLM being trained on all our data without our agreement, it's a concern.

OpenAI say that they're not making a profit on even their pro plan. You know what they say about free services and being the product.

Where are you? Brit here.

Feels like we're fighting a losing battle to people who you simply don't care about privacy, who use the built in browser of the OS; the default.

Strangely, when I asked them for their home address and peccadillos they always refuse/walk away. They even ask me to turn away when they enter passwords. What's that about?!

I use degooglechrome (flatpak - Fedora) for the moronic sites that are too encumbered with trackers and other shite to ever load on Firefox. In the UK that would be the National Lottery website as an example. If it loads for you, you're not as privacy conscious as you think.

To me, using Firefox would suggest that you don't use Chrome for more than the odd few sites because you specifically use Firefox for privacy. That's because Chrome goes out of its way to remove privacy eg. frustrating uBlock Origin.

I don't sync bookmarks because I don't want Google to have them too easily. I'm sure they have them but I didn't offer them up knowingly.

I'm bound to ask: why do you use Firefox? Unless you're a dev that has to cover all browsers.

This.

Only about one in twenty of recorded 'crime' is ever solved. I don't know whether that includes posting a tweet (aka non-crime hate incident). That's recorded crime (if they'll let you record a crime).

Same view as you: got turned away with that same phrase "civil matter, sir".

I'm guessing that the real figure is maybe 1 in 100 at best. I'm sure I saw a pod cast of that undercover detective (Pete(r) B-something?) who was evicted from the Met who said the figure was in that ball park. Can't find it or remember his name. Bah!

Thank-you. That's fairly easy.

Linux antivirus is more about preventing viruses from propagating to Windows machines via email etc.

Why just :1? The default is :3 and looking at the timings for zstd deflate speed vs compression level (Google for it .. ), becomes slow at around 7.

Don't mean shit to me but suggest you reconsider.

What I'd like is far far fewer basic links to Reddit.

It's getting old to me.

Everybody else from Reddit.