Notices by Sean R. Lynch ☑️ (seanl@social.literati.org)

Chrome isn't a web browser. It's a tentacle of Google that takes over your computer, spies on you, and controls everything you see.

Unfollowed @nextcloud because I didn't come to Mastodon to get links to Twitter.

Esther Dyson talks about the "attention economy", not just about our desire to control where we put our attention, but about others' desire to get our (or anyone's) attention, as a form of immortality and not just to make money.

And that's what advertisers are stealing from my kids: their immortality. And they're paying fractions of pennies for it. I fear this could be much worse with millenials, who have perhaps grown up thinking their attention is worthless.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/01/esther_dyson_on.html

Twitter. You know. It's like Mastodon but centralized.

YouTube. Like PeerTube but centralized.

Facebook. Like Friendi.ca but centralized.

WhatsApp. Like Matrix but centralized.

Some of the same people complain about corporations controlling the government and about corporations not wanting anything to do with government. When Zuck becomes more cooperative with DC (and visits more), it's not going to come in the form of him bending over for Senators. It's going to come in the form of him spending a big chunk of change *buying* Senators.

No thanks, I don't want all the crap you append after the # in the URL so that when I paste it somewhere else you know where it came from.

I wonder how long it'll be before websites start using unique URLs where you can neither remove their tracking garbage nor tell that it's the same link as another one. We've already destroyed the open Internet this much, why not go even farther?

It's not really end-to-end encryption of the company even *can* hand all your encryption keys to the government.

If you're still using Telegram, stop. Use something with genuine end-to-end encryption like XMPP with OMEMO, Tox, or Signal.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180320/19123839463/russian-court-says-telegram-must-hand-over-encryption-keys-to-state-intelligence-service.shtml

What I'm trying to say is, Facebook CANNOT be fixed. They will NEVER be able to protect people's data. The idea that they can is and has always been a massive fraud.

Remember when everyone left MySpace to go to Facebook because they were dissatisfied with MySpace's protection of their privacy and felt Facebook would do a better job?