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  1. @LAwLzDude, I want to fist-bump you. Well said. I was thinking the same.

     

    If we want to conspires for fun though, I think this likely has to do with Intel. Nvidia has never seen AMD as much of a threat to them, and do not really respect them as an equal competitor. Now with Intel coming into the d-GPU market with Open Source drivers and APIs like AMD, I think Nvidia has seen it's time to open up if they want to stay more relevant to users and developers alike in the graphics market. 

  2. 24 minutes ago, wanderingfool2 said:

    That assumes there wont be a way to see what was the edited comment.  Anyways, there are people who seem to already get away with it (there's a tweet I've reported 2 weeks ago now that still hasn't been removed that contains a photo where the text literally uses a racist term and calls said race stupid)

    Let me guess, was it directed towards a race wearing a pigment like that of a fresh sheet of printing paper?

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    In unexpected news - the long time advertising rooted tech giant, Google, and the owner of the worlds largest mobile OS and consequently one of the largest advertising platform, Android, has decided to allow users in the upcoming Android 12 update to opt-out of Advertising ID's in the OS's settings. Advertising ID's, or in Android's specific case GAIDs (Google Advertising IDs), help apps, like Facebook, to track users across differing apps & platforms in order to build a profile of the user. To note though these ID's are not required to build a profile of an internet user. Facebook is able to build profiles of many who don't even have an account on Facebook or any of their direct products. However, Advertising ID's do significantly help curate a lot more data about a user as well as helps with accuracy when matching data to a user and the ease of user-data tracking in general.

     

    This announcement comes well after the famous iOS 14.5 update from Apple which brought App Tracking Transparency  and marked the first move of putting this very wanted power into the user's hands. Apples implementation is better in that it pops up to the user when an app wants to use Advertising ID's (IDFA as Apple calls it). For android though this will be located somewhere in Android's system settings meaning less noticeable and more likely to go unchanged by the user. When opted out, Android will still pass an Advertising ID but it will be filled with zeros thus making it essentially useless.

     

    Apple has received a lot of push back from companies such as Facebook so will be interesting to see how Google weathers this also. For instance apple had planned to release App Tracking Transparency with iOS 14.0 but delayed to 14.5 instead based on these companies response. 

     

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    ...the absence of a similar feature like App Tracking Transparency from Google I/O 2021 was a bummer. Gladly, though, our disappointment was short-lived.

    Only yesterday, Google announced its plans to make advertising ID an opt-in feature...

     

    To put it straight, Google’s advertising ID (GAID) can no longer be accessed by advertisers if the user disables it from their settings.

    GAID is similar to Apple’s IDFA in the aspect that both are used to monetize off users’ interests...If their loss from iOS 14 was in the range of $80bn, Android the more dominant platform will only increase their losses and woes...

     

    Google’s opt-out ad-tracking popup isn’t on the forefront like in iOS. Instead, it’s buried deep in the Google Play Service settings — which could be difficult for the non-tech savvy user to find out.

     

    Regardless, the move by the search engine giant is surprising. Much like Facebook, advertisements are a major chunk of Google’s business as well.

     

    Google's Announcement

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    Starting in late 2021, when a user opts out of interest-based advertising or ads personalization, the advertising identifier will not be available. You will receive a string of zeros in place of the identifier.

     

    My thoughts

    I'm both shocked and stoked that Google is doing this. Wish it was more transparent and easier for the user to be able to see & opt out of but none the less this is a very welcomed step in the right direction. Welcomed I mean by us average users of Android. Not for companies that rely on the platform's big advertising opportunity. Maybe some day it will be an opt-in feature instead of an opt-out. Doubt it but one can dream! Glad to see Facebook loosing it's invasive power. I personally do not trust Facebook with my data. Nor do I think they are an ethical company. Glad to have finally pulled the trigger and deleted my account recently. Just wish I could do it again.

     

    Sources

    https://thebigtech.substack.com/p/google-limits-mobile-advertising-id-android-12

     

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/3/22466531/google-android-ad-traking-advertising-identifier-id

     

    https://www.engadget.com/google-android-opt-out-app-tracking-143911504.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANSdEKHKVVrVtPVYDqE0rQePjdd0Le-IB241EsLRtTCfz0NOoU58ENXK72hinUHPlkzYgYJWRhb51z0r_PWYmX0XSdEMOuhisdc0a5hNaWF1iPq5EwRTxZrr3V3Is9GBOFUNWA77H2ZOHkj6STqJPAuyHc1u2O4gAt9L0irfDMWq

     

     

    Google's direct announcement:

    https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6048248

     

  4. 4 minutes ago, BuckGup said:

    Well I'm still happy with my decision. You should stop using Facebook too if you are. Stopping any vector they have to your data is a good thing especially a vector they blatantly control completely. Otherwise it's similar to "I have nothing to hide so why should I care if they see my data." 

     

     

  5. I perma deleted facebook 2 weeks ago after a few trial runs of having my account de-activated. Think it needs another 2 weeks of me not logging on until it's permanently gone. I downloaded the data prior so I atleast have it to look back on. Used it for 10+ years. All I gotta say it feels go not to be supporting that company anymore with my time & data. No regrets. If only more normies would do the same. I like what they are doing at Gab, the implemented things so well & the transparent give what money you want model works well 🙂 No adverts so no reason to sell your data. I understand Gab may be to Christian / Conservative which is why I was hoping Parler would take off cause they at least tried to be a platform for all and took no side. Atlass though that got killed by these big tech-companies. Scummy. Really wanted something besides twitter & reddit to get out of my echo-chamber cause it's healthy too. Right now it's only reddit cause I deleted twitter cause they are supper scummy like facebook. Maybe even worse.

     

    Btw: Odysee is a great alternative to youtube! Support alt-tech 🙂

  6. 18 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

    It is starting to become default.  I am in a science fiction book club that uses WhatsApp  and the group refuses to change platforms even though the new TOS for it effectively destroys its security.  I have yet to agree to the TOS so I suspect I will be forced out of the group when the switch is finally flipped.

    That triggers me. Is it I don't want to signup for a new app excuse? Or, and this may be a bit sexist is it the females in the group refusing to leave WhatsApp? Always seems harder with them.

  7. Eh Yahoo can burn. Their news site suckz donkey balls. Their comment section over a year has been disabled because and I quote, 

     

    "Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting."

     

    Their a bunch of wokies that hate free-speech or don't know what it is and like their safe space. I don't trust any news-site that disabled their comment section as not to receive any criticism. 

  8. 1 hour ago, wkdpaul said:

    oh but I 100% can, yes, BTW we (moderators) are human. As such, mistakes can happen, bias can be present, so it's possible they decided to ban you simply because of what you posted somewhere else.

     

    With that said, you assigning the ban to something that wasn't present in your post is yours, and yours alone. Next time, ask why without bringing anything into it, they'll have an explanation (that you might not like), but at least you'll know where they're coming from (again, not saying you'll agree).

     

    I've been on the other side of this, and all your reply does is raise all sorts of red flag.

     

    I'm sorry but I don't see how my reply was wrong or "raises all sorts of red flags". It wasn't great sure but at worst it was just an okay reply. I have a full time job & a life so I don't really have the desire to try and cozy up to the moderators. I thought my desire to know why I got banned was shortly & calmly asked by me to the mod. A normal person could clearly see that my flagged comment itself shouldn't have been considered controversial enough to deserve a ban. Not even remotely. Not by itself anyway. I used a self censored swear word but i've seen many people use un-censored swear words in that sub leading up to it. So yeah obviously i jumped to the only assumption I could think of at the time. Also at the time my reddit history was rather easy to look through so he could have easily checked it out to see if there was other things said by me that could have warranted the ban. But sure I guess I'll throw-out the knee jerk reaction to assume the worst next time and probably add a please when asking why I got banned. This was my first time getting banned from a sub mind you so I acknowledge inexperience probably played a part. If he was a good mod, read what was flagged, he would have wondered why I got banned for such a thing and got to digging into it for me & getting back with an answer. But nope. 

     

    Here's also the context that the "context" hyper linked in the image I shared earlier goes to if you care to look. As you can see I only said that one thing that got quoted for the ban. Not sure why op got his comment removed but i don't remember it being anything bad. Anyway this whole thing screams bad moderation. 

     

     

    Thanks for at least acknowledging moderation bias. I feel like you have some bias here and I can't blame you, as moderating is an exhausting & for the most part a thankless job. Also understand I'm probably to much of a free speech advocate/lover to meet current mod standards as I was taught growing up to highly value free speech & that everyone should have a voice even Nazi's who we view to be the absolute scum of the earth.

     

     

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