Notices by Formerly a Trickster (trickster@mastodon.technology)

Vice dot com (a website that sends data back to Google, Facebook, and Segment, even if you don't have a Facebook account) reports that the Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account

@bclindner imagine how much more work you'll get done once you've automated your meme posting

@ben @debugninja You're fighting the good fight, Ben.

@drwho I see http as a fundamentally pull protocol, not a push one. If I'm visiting a website in a client that doesn't support images, I'm not blocking images, I'm simply not requesting them, same with all the tracking garbage. It's a misnomer to call it "blocking", I'm just not asking for them. To pretend that that's some kind of hackery and breaking the website, is disingenuous at best, as there's nothing in the way that the web works that requires websites to be packaged in a certain way.

"I will refrain from buying books on Amazon and feeding the machine" i say as I buys books from Book Depository.

Turns out Book Depository is owned by Amazon and I'm Boo Boo the fucken clown.

@garbados Never 5get.

@CornishRepublicanArmy amazing how all these people pour out of the woodwork asking "but what about that one ambulance that couldn't pass because of them?"

lmao, I just got owned, guess we should let the whole of the earth die then, sorry future generations

The main contradiction of liberal democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures. Such civil disobedience is retrospectively seen as justified, and the people committing it are retrospectively seen as heroes. However, each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.