That’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.
MotoAsh
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Using a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry.
It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.
Good luck with that on anything that has a locked boot loader or stock OS.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Should your private messages and group chats be public information?English
1·6 days agolol well… not exactly what I meant, but OK.
You do point at yet another problem with the idea, though: Not all “unpopular” opinions are bad opinions, and exposing everything for judgement all the time would only further promote same-think under capitalism.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Should your private messages and group chats be public information?English
3·6 days agoOh I’m not sorry for their consequences. That doesn’t make removing all privacy a good idea.
Though think of privacy as offering a feeling of safety. We wouldn’t know they literally said they love Hitler if they wouldn’t have felt safe enough to voice it. They didn’t think it WOULD be leaked. They just knew their opinion was gross to the mainstream.
I’m SURE you have said many things the mainstream would call gross. Maybe not necessarily hateful and vile ontop of that, but gross and ostracizing worthy to some none the less. Would you be OK with people ostracizing you for less than what they’ve said?
Would you have said/done those things if you knew it could be looked up by your name?
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Should your private messages and group chats be public information?English
12·6 days agoIt’s by definition not private if others can just look it up. I’d say no. Nobody deserves to be judged by their employer or others for EVERYTHING they do or say. Everybody has a bad day sometimes. Everyone gets really annoyed and says mean stuff.
Furthermore, privacy has profound mental health implications. People that cannot get privacy develop mental disorders like paranoia, anxiety, self-doubt, and all sorts of other problems.
On top of that, if they knew their messages could’ve been leaked… do you think they would’ve said it in the first place? They WOULD be thinking it, but you wouldn’t know.
Invading everyone’s privacy because you don’t want to have to exercise your brain is a terrible thing to ask. To those of us that do know how to observe and think, it’s pretty damn obvious when someone is a pile of crap like these people. Removing ALL privacy just so dummies can agree is… one of the worst possible reasons to remove privacy.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Running Windows 10 on a spare drive, only for games. How dangerous is it to not get security updates?English
161·10 days agoWhy was it exposed to the internet with all ports open? Even Linux is getting hacked if you’re fucking rawdogging every packet that shows up…
(yes I know it’s likely from a bunch of BS services only Windows would be dumb enough to enable by default, but the point still stands that any computer that’s exposed to the internet directly needs to be carefully locked down)
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
11·11 days agolol a minority with the majority of power…
Do you … do you not understand how systemic racism works…?
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
22·12 days agoNo shit. Nowhere did I say you’d convince a bigot with these arguments, especially bigots as committed to the bit as Israelis…
BTW, if you think Palestinians are a majority in relation to Israel and the other nations involved in that conflict, ESPECIALLY in power, then you are only exemplifying your lack of understanding of how the real world works.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
12·12 days agoIf they turn it in to a white genocide problem, then you already have your answer: They don’t care about minorities.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
58·12 days agoTheir purity test: You must not deny genocide.
What you heard their purity test was: They must accept that any and all genocides that I think exist are real and a big problem.
Again, you fucking morons are inferring things that aren’t there just to try and be witty, while utterly missing the point…
Congratulations on failing your reading comprehension test.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
15·12 days agoEnglish must be so hard for you when you utterly fail to understand how assumptions work. Good job being a piece of shit contributing to the problem you’re attempting to be above.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
6·12 days agoI dunno’, unless I hear shouting and those typical inflections of, “I’m REALLY pissed off”, I’ll only ever think an argument in French is going to lead to rough makeup sex.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
81·12 days agoHoly shit, I would unironically start trolling her… Give her chickens Jewish names so when she starts badmouthing them, she might have a clue she’s just being a bigot, exactly like Nazis in that respect of, “everyone of a group I don’t like is guilty”.
I’d start giving her nicknames of officers that stood over concentration camps if she continued.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
27·12 days agoTheir example of bigots was racists and nazis plus pedos (which isn’t bigotry but universally frowned upon). They did NOT say, “any and all bigots, even of minor things”.
Why are you trying to make them say something they did not say?
You are part of the problem. When someone says, “I like pancakes”, what they SPECIFICALLY DID NOT SAY is, “I hate waffles”.
Similarly, when someone says, “you cannot compromize with nazis and bigots”, what they DID NOT say was, “any concervative deserves the death penalty”. Why do you read it as such?
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
55·12 days agoYou’re all making generalities out of assumptions here…
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?English
15·12 days agoThe latter one is more of a human trait. That’s why basically every conservative will immediately suspect you pf something if you start badmouthing religions (at least their religion), even with totally accurate critique they happen to not know much about.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's an uplifting fact that might counter the doom of our current reality?English
21·15 days agoThe universe does not render to nothing that which came from something.
The very laws of physics dictate that ‘you’ do not disappear. Time is a human projection of our understanding and perspective. Our times of death are merely a location on a much grander tapestry that we are absolutely a part of. While we may not be infinite, we are real.
MotoAsh@piefed.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's an uplifting fact that might counter the doom of our current reality?English
11·15 days agoScuba diving.
It might make it worse, not being able to eat the pizza without tasting the water you’re in and having to deal with removing and replacing your mouthpiece.
… or latrine/septic cleaner on the job. I’m not enjoying pizza in a shittank.

rofl you offer no evidence, only insults. Yore a pathetic joke and you’re trying to make it my problem. Move along, loser.
My comment wasn’t about how open or closed VPNs are, you fucking moron. It was about how they’re not a silver bullet for protecting privacy.