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- utopian0
- Facebook, Twiiter, Amazon, Parlor, Apple, etc...created this monster. Now they want to be be responsible media companies. Fuck them all!utopian
- They don't care. It all boils down to money. The Steam forums are some of the worst pits of pure cuntery yet Valve do nothing...face_melter
- ...because if they went in heavy and started removing these cunts they would lose a shitload of cash. All they do is piecemeal moderation to keep the static lowface_melter
- #metoo movement and BLM movements would not have happened without ithotroddy
- Bennn0
This is the new generation :
''Instagram and YouTube Star Jailed for Climbing The Great Pyramid of Giza''
Article: https://petapixel.com/2020/01/16…He said: "...Was it worth it? F**K YEAH! I did it for a good cause"
No one know what that 'cause' is outside boosting his social medias.
This is the dude:
His instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kingvi…
His girlfriend got arrested for the same thing few months ago :
Check the video here and see what is the Internet Generation >>> https://www.instagram.com/tv/B6q…
Her instagram is a tornado of asses and boobs https://www.instagram.com/kinsey…
I'm getting old for sure.
- Gardener3
.If you want to ameliorate your "footprint" at least somewhat, here are some reasonably simple things you can do (a lot of them are obvious):
- Delete (or at least stop using) all social media accounts. They've already got everything they need to build a profile on you, but quitting now will at least make it harder for that to continue. Unless you're a very active user, you'd be surprised how quickly you lose the "need" for them once they're gone. If you have to use social media for work, create separate profiles just for that and only use them when absolutely necessary. If you can dedicate a machine/network just for that, even better.
- Stop using as many Google products and services as possible, including Gmail. This is probably one of the harder ones, but it's worth doing whatever you can (i.e. using DuckDuckGo as a search engine, never using Google Chrome as a browser, not using stock Android on your phone, not using Gmail for important/personal emails). ProtonMail is a great alternative for e-mail, and Firefox/Brave/DuckDuckGo are all good browser alternatives. If you must use Google accounts, tweak the privacy settings as much as you can to opt out of "personalization".
- Use a VPN and browser extensions. Firefox is probably the best browser for selection of privacy-enhancing extensions, and comes with a lot of good options within the browser itself. Depending on how stringent you want to be, some of them can make your internet activity a bit more fiddly (certain pages breaking, constantly having to re-enter logins or verifying accounts etc.) but I'd say uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and Google/Facebook "container" extensions are essential for preventing these companies from tracking your activity across the web. VPNs don't offer as much protection as some people assume, but every hurdle helps, and it's worth paying a little for a good one.
- Keep phone apps (and usage) to a minimum. Depending on how careful you are with your settings, a lot of apps will subtly run in the background, gather location data or even access your microphone. Delete any apps that you don't use often, you can always re-download them if needed. It's a good idea to limit your phone to essentials anyway, for more than just privacy reasons (I also keep my phone on grayscale most of the time, which makes it less appealing to idly fiddle with). There's no popular smartphone that's particularly privacy friendly out-of-the-box, but iPhone/iOS is probably the lesser of all evils (unless you're tech-savvy enough to install an open source OS like Graphene on an Android phone).
- Try to only use privacy-respecting messaging apps. Signal is probably the best option, but Telegram will do as it's more widely-used. This one can be hard because you're sort of limited to what everyone else is already using (Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger etc.), but try to use those ones as little as possible. Apparently iMessage isn't a bad option if you're on iPhone with other iPhone users, but since it's not open source it's hard to be sure.
- Don't use your real name or other identifying details anywhere online unless absolutely necessary. A lot of the things you sign up for don't actually need to know your real name and birthday in order to work, so don't give it to them. And keep separate email addresses for different purposes (i.e. one for personal, one for work, a few for various different sign-ups etc.) This helps "diversify" your internet profile. It extends to in-person "sign-ups" as well (shops, restaurants etc.) If they don't "need" your phone number or home/e-mail address, don't give it to them.
Those are a few things which seem the most important for reducing your digital footprint. I'm not especially tech-savvy myself, so I'm sure many of you will have other/better suggestions, or will be able to explain why some of mine are bollocks. I've also found https://www.privacytools.io/ to have good information and resources if you're interested.
- grafician0
Facebook blocked all q anon accounts from their networks.
But my thoughts and prayers are with the people at Twitter that are basically fighting a war now to moderate the network after that idiot is tweeting non stop...
- please do some screenshot of an article, or tweet, we need an other post about this lolsted
- NBQ002
Leaked Documents Show TikTok Tried to Suppress ‘Ugly’ Users https://gizmodo.com/leaked-docum…
- Krassy9
- In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.brandonp
- Actually is about ppl not knowing how to access information in this information age...
When ppl think Fb is the internet, how will they discover QBN?!...grafician - stupid people dont try to become less stupid with internet, they just keep looking at stupid things.Bennn
- true! so what's the solution here...api
- < thisShaneHolley
- "you can't fix stupid", as they say. The internet has just brought them out in the light, arming them w more stupidity. Just look at our Prez and his gang.formed
- I didn't even know how stupid most people were until Trump was elected.monospaced
- we're in the age of over-information though.SimonFFM
- Bluejam1
- butbutbut how did the guys account got involved in all of this? also SAHM => too much time to waste => online trolling.
+this guy doesn't knows his wife.sted - What was her qbn username ???monospaced
- There was a relationship here on QBN once, she was total cunt to the guy publicly. But she got a bit popular, People loved her, she really total B tho.robotron3k
- butbutbut how did the guys account got involved in all of this? also SAHM => too much time to waste => online trolling.
- Bennn0
Instagram is probably the worst of them all
- because?Krassy
- This is the ultimate "compare your life to other and be depressed" social media and ... too much thing to say and i'm too lazy to write atmBennn
- Psychologist rate Instagram as most harmful social mediarobotron3k
- I only follow shit I'm interested. Artists, brands, pubs.. I don't see anyone comparing shitty lives. Instagram is great, you just need to know how to use it.set
- interested in..*set
- ^ This applies to just about every social media format.CyBrainX
- Continuity0
The irony of the situation is that it isn't the fault of the present generation, that social media are rotting our brains and mining our most personal information.
The fault is on our generation, those of us in our late 30s to mid-40s. We're the ones who put the whole thing in motion. We caused this to happen.
- we adopted it true, however, it was new and we saw positive things but it has turned into an awful human depression machinery and horrible invasion of privacy.Boz
- this generation :
https://i.redd.it/1r…Gnash - It goes back farther than us.
Advertising is horrible, and last I knew almost everyone here works for it.grafiske
- Krassy2
Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
- Isn't a credit score a sort of social credit score anyway?Nairn
- ^ only tied to ability to borrow and repay monies/loans/etc. NOT tied to social behavior, etc.Krassy
- https://www.youtube.…prophetone
- pockets12
get rid of it, live life
- Is QBN classed as social media?Ianbolton
- QBN predates social mediaSlashPeckham
- and yet it is social media. More social than most.CyBrainX
- Nairn2
I just the other day set up an FB account, as there's a professionally-oriented group that's of relevance to me here in LDN that apparently I need to keep an eye on.
I gotta say - the interface is weirdly bland and clinical. I'm surprised (i'm not) that some of the DIY charm of the old MySpace days hasn't been allowed. It seems odd to me all these bright young ditzy things spending so many hours in a rigidly-prescribed engineer's data-vacuum warehouse.
- Did you like MySpace?zarkonite
- I'm not sure I liked any of it, but I made a few MySpace pages and kept my own updated as some weird, overly excited and utterly inconsequential effort.Nairn
- "Do you like QBN?"
I'm not sure, but I've somehow managed to keep coming back for nearly twenty fucking years.Nairn - I happened recently to come across some old graphics I did for [well-known LDN club]'s MySpace presence back in the day. there was a certain joy there, for sureNairn
- QBN is turning into a social network? I stay here a lot more now than on Fb. In unfollowed everybody on Fb, my "feed" is empty, use it only for events and bdaysgrafician
- BonSeff2
- What the fuck?section_014
- - You're in therapy? That's great.
No, urine therapy.
- I'll see you later.Fax_Benson - https://giphy.com/gi…Fax_Benson
- this can't be happening...this can't be happening...futurefood
- people were into this nonsense in the 80s too, I remember my parent making fun of itlajj
- lol faxset
- There are definitely some benefits to it, but nothing you can't get elsewhere. If I can use something else other ten my own piss then I probably will..set
- You know, I have access to amazon, it's not like we're living on a fucking remote island.set
- Your piss is only waste in as much as its excess vitamins, minerals and water. It's definitely good for you.set
- ... and can save your life for a while if you recycle it, but yea come on, living in a first works country in 2019 you have to be a right cunt to drink pissset
- First World *set