There is no "if". They do that. It's not a hypothetical.

Found the glowie.

The more they push the more we'll adapt.

That's likely a huge distraction and an overregulated racket. The people censoring speech control the processors and banking system. Find a payment processor outside of the US that takes cards and see what other people did first. Better yet, get people to start using a cryptocurrency as cash.

That doesn't sound like a good place to archive links. Calling cryptocurrency a scam? That sounds like a three-letter agency more than an archive site.

I remember a 3rd party pitching proximity based marketing to us when I worked at a Fortune 500. The ad revenue based internet has gone from bad to Orwellian. Decentralized cryptocurrency could have fixed most of this, but it was captured and rate-limited before it could reach more than the early adopters. Now it's been transformed from peer-to-peer electronic currency that could have powered internet commerce to some kind of speculative digital tulip. I still think cryptocurrency specifically used as money (without blocksize limits and obstructionist incumbents) is the answer to most of our problems. It's going to take major disruption for the incumbents to get out of the way, though. 10-50 years is my guess, and only if we don't end up with a global authoritarian government first.

That wasn't in the TLDR that most people will skip to. You need to update it to reflect reality. It's misleading. Might as well be CCP propaganda. >In this article, I tried to understand what data does TikTok regularly send back to its servers. I decrypted the content of the requests and analysed it. As far as we can see, in its current state, TikTok doesn’t have a suspicious behavior and is not exfiltrating unusual data. Getting data about the user device is quite common in the mobile world and we would obtain similar results with Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and others. Modern social media apps are security threats, and if one of them has enough market penetration ("Daddy daddy install TikTok and see my music video!" - Daddy is a general in the US military or a bioweapons researcher), AND is accessible to state actors, the chances of an installation slipping through that is used maliciously approaches 1. There is a long list of programs that are huge security threats and blatantly violate our rights, not just TikTok. Software has long been eroding our rights in the West, and the fact that everyone does it doesn't make it OK. >Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions.

That doesn't make it harmless. If that metadata reveals the user is in a US military base, what's to stop the servers from requesting additional data from the app, or turning on the microphone or camera?

Welcome to the wild world of internet surveilance. Look into "device fingerprinting" and "network traffic analysis" while you are at it. 1) Always use a VPN 2) Do not use google chrome. Use Firefox. 3) Install fingerprint blockers and script blockers (like noscript) into Firefox (there are other addons you can use too that help)

This is spam advertising.

Typical Vox garbage. The headline is a fallacy. Why are we assuming it does anything to teenagers' brains in the first place? More research isn't going to help. The issue is the quality of the research that trash media outlets like Vox publish like it's the gospel. Mathematics is about the only thing left we can 'prove'. Even physics is turning out to be an approximation. Next up on Vox: What happens when a butterfly farts over the Atlantic Ocean? Is butter actually ~~bad~~ ~~good~~ ~~bad~~ good for you? Why scientists ~~who work for grant money only awarded to those with the most cataclysmic predictions~~ say climate change is going to make the earth uninhabitable in 10 years from any point in the future, to be updated constantly.

lol Now that's some "dual use" technology, just like COVID!

The article gives near-zero detail about the "technology". What was the volume of air tested and flow rate? Does it use a fan or HVAC system? It sounds like a rebranded UV light bulb that I can buy for 40 bucks and install in my HVAC receiver.

It actually creates a hyper-inflationary ad revenue loop that pays Google while devaluing your country's currency.

The companies advertising are mostly small and medium sized businesses. You will be transferring money from small and medium sized businesses to Google and Facebook. If you are on CNN's website, you'll be transferring money from small and medium sized businesses to CNN, Google, and Facebook. That extension is a terrible idea. Use Ublock Origin, not the fraud click extension.

Clicking on ads gives revenue to Google and Facebook and hurts the companies advertising.

Use qwant.com. duckduckgo gives its revenue to leftist organizations. It's almost as bad as google.

This x 1000.