Monthly Shaarli
January, 2021
In the old days, when Google wanted you dead it would remove you from search results. But now, they can just block your site in Chrome.
I made a goal for myself in January 2020 to stop using Google products by the end of the year. That might sound like way too generous a timeline, but...
A peeve of mine: pretty much all "made outside the US" messaging is sketchy, because one of the most important differences between stuff run in the US and stuff run outside the US is that NSA doesn't need special permission to hack stuff run outside the US --- in fact, hacking stuff outside of the US is basically their whole charter.
I'm not saying you should purposefully select US technology in order to avoid surveillance, just that "hosted or made in Switzerland" messaging in privacy tools isn't very meaningful, and takes advantage of an emotional reaction in prospective customers, not a rational one.
Facebook backed down in the face of public protests but failed to provide a credible explanation for its actions.
Press release: Facebook shuts down major left wing group in Britain
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