students in the bootcamp are required to start a brand-new account on X-formerly-Twitter, for which they’re required to get a minimum of 100 organic followers, pay for X Premium, and post an unknown number of replies to “bigger accounts with real substance,”

All this sounds less like education and more experimentation with the children being the lab rats.

With all the malware, etc., clicking on any ad is ill advised.

Personal space and boundaries are now only concepts people easily ignore.

Broadcasting strangers on social media has become such an everyday occurrence no one seems to remember the individual has a right to privacy.

Pervert glasses and surveillance technology will continue to bring the worst of humanity to the surface at the expense of individual safety, privacy, and freedom.

One reason this type of promotion may be becoming more common is that connected cars give automakers a direct path to the driver’s screen.

Once a person purchases a vehicle it should be theirs, not shared access with Automakers and their partners.

Need a tier for ad free, data collection free viewing.

Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity,

You can have both privacy and integrity. Humanity isn’t meant to be watched every hour of every day.

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This just emphasizes another reason why people should not consider it a privacy respecting browser. :)

How privacy respecting can it be when you have to jump through hoops to turn off everything it shouldn’t do by default, in the name of privacy in the first place?

That should be my line.

Lurking is so much easier though!

A choice allows for saying no. Installing it anyway takes away your choice. Having to disable something you didn’t want to begin with puts the responsibility on the person that didn’t want it. Then you are responsible for keeping up with it hoping it doesn’t turn itself on in an update or send information somewhere regardless of being disabled.

A separate update/download for AI would actually give the user a choice.

AI should be built like the internet — open, accessible, and driven by choice

If they really wanted to give you a choice, they would allow the option of saying no, don’t install any of it.

Technically true

Google can’t keep malware off the platform now, but sure, make it mandatory you can’t go anywhere else unless they say so first.

Settings>General>Posts>Autoplay Gifs/Video

I usually tell people I have better ways of doing actual work that doesn’t require me to hand over every facet of my life.

Switzerland has a surveillance law in the works that will force VPNs, messaging apps, and online platforms to log users’ identities, IP addresses, and metadata for government access

I can only answer why I dropped Windows. I wasn’t going to pay a company to force AI spyware onto my system, ignore my commands with every update that negated them, or hold my data hostage if I didn’t jump through their endless hoops; all to claim my data as theirs with their end goal being to charge me more money for accessing what is supposed to be mine in the first place!