PieFed.WorldUS says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’
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They are so close to understanding a solution, but they failed to choose the correct one.
The real issue is that it is legal for these companies to stalk us then sell that data freely. Limit data collection for all citizens and heavily punish companies who continue to track.
None of them have the guts to put CEOs behind bars.
ZierAdvertising is a cancer.
Online advertising is a cancer I would say. When I get an ad mailer I’ll look through pretty much the whole thing, because it’s most likely local businesses and I know just looking won’t come back to bite me in any way.
OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact
That’s a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label “cancer” seems fair to me.
If they try to deceive me by making the outside look handwritten or using wording like “FINAL NOTICE” then yeah, straight in the trash without a 2nd look. If it’s obviously an ad from the get go I’ll usually give it a skim at least.
That’s good! But I’d still prefer if I and the other 44% could at least say “please stop producing and sending us trash”.
They should really make mailed advertisements opt-in, but of course the industry won’t do that. And this what makes it cancerous IMO: they never give up trying to inject ads into people’s lives.
dan1101OTOH, serving content is not free and something needs to pay the hosting/publishing bills.
The problem IMO is invasive ad serving tech and deceptive ads, which are often both uncurated and deceptive.
Now that the US has declared itself a foreign adversary for every other country on the planet, can we start banning online ads, at least from US companies?
I can’t even pause my TV to read something without an ad appearing a second later.
Psst, change your TV DNS server to AdGuard DNS. Also Check this out.
….Until we meet again.
I just bought a TV from a local B2B that does video displays/video walls. They had an extra 96 inch Planar, I paid a bit for them to haul it over but now I have a dumb TV with no bloatware installed on it.
Apparently they have leftover stock from big projects on occasion and are happy to sell them when that happens.
swab148How much was it?
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]Extremely critical support for the ad industry in this exactly singular instance
𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘If only someone would have told them. I’m just amazed.
Right? Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of your own predictable greed and corruption
Yes…that’s how big tech advertising industry works. It’s how Google and Facebook make billions. How do they not know this?
SteveThey’re old. They’re slow to adapt to paradigm shifts.
They were also lied to, and paid lots of money by these companies.
☂️-GET. FUCKED.
everything the us loses because of its panopticon is very deserving and moral.
i’m scrambling to obtain a router before the panopticon ban hits routers.
orcaI love my GL.iNet router. It runs OpenWRT. I swapped to it a few months ago after getting a service upgrade and having my ISP try to force an Eero upon me.
Edit: they sell mobile routers too iirc (saw your other message).
TiredTigerSeconding this for anyone looking to buy one. Their pre-installed OpenWRT firmware is easy enough to use, and you can also set up AdGuard Home on some models (like a pi-hole but on your router).
I would never, ever use the router or modem an ISP tries to stick you with. They charge you monthly for those, for one thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had monitoring stuff on them, for another.
I have AdGuard setup on mine! Worth it and dead simple to configure.
Edit: they sell mobile routers too iirc (saw your other message).
thank you for mentioning this. GL.iNet’s mobile router didn’t show up in my searches and it instantly blows my top contenders out of the water.
No problem! They’ve got quite a few of them, so hopefully something there works.
i wish they that they were american based or at least european or japanese; the money I’ve ended up flushing down the toilet on chinese mobile devices taught me the hard way that american carriers eventually ban them using technical excuses so counterfactual that the pretext is obvious to anyone who knows the tech.
still, though, i’m highly tempted considering that it both costs less than the nighthawk m7 and has WAY MORE features/capabilities, so i should still get atleast 3-5 years of use out it before it too gets blocked by at&t or t-mobile.
I’ve had one of GL.inet’s routers for over a year now and I’m really happy with it. I surprisingly did not have my ISP barking at me when I replaced my old one with it, which was a relief. I don’t use a mobile carrier for my home internet though, so I don’t know if they’re more picky about what you use.
Another recommendation for GL.iNet - been running one for a year and a half or so.
Whole house VPN via Mullvad was extremely easy to configure, for instance. As well as setting up an isolated “guest” network for fussy and sus devices (AKA no VPN for that).
You’ll love it!
make sure to get an openwrt compatible one. you are not gonna regret it.
i should i specified a mobile router. the prices on used/refurbished mobile routers are starting to rival brand new as inventories are starting to vanish because of the ban and i’m getting sick of my chinese phones getting blocked by american carriers.
i’m planning on doing openwrt/tomato/etc. too and the homework i’ve done so far suggests that supportable routers are a bit older so i suspect that i’ll have more leeway when it comes to the ban.
sad to hear you guys are blocking vendors entirely now. huaweis used to have imei spoofing options, and some fuckery to allow regular play store and play services to work (not that you should want it)
dunno how it is now with open fascism and play integrity going on. and i imagine you already explored these options but it doesn’t hurt to mention them.
not blocking vendors wholesale; rather more like blocking “non-compliant” devices that dis proportionally affect certain vendors.
and the privacy community is probably the best source for these options.
Guess we’re about to find out which sacred cow the US worships more, the military or corporate money.
I’m not holding my breath on which it is though
Jay“Hot Singles In Your Area With Hand grenades! CliCk HeRe!”
UnderpantsWeevilI guess our soldiers are just going to have to take one for the team
inariOh what’s that? The thing I’ve been warning about for decades, turns out I was right AGAIN? Well “good” I guess, and we’ll learn from this and kill the spyware industry now right? Ah of course not, you just want to control it, yup how could I think otherwise..
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HupfIt’s no problem when it affects lowly citizens.
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