BolexForSoup
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social
Former landed gentry.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 6 months ago:
Xbox 360 was a fun time.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
Th first sentence of the article establishes my argument.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
It’s not about the advertising. It’s that you have to pay money to opt out of their aggressive data collection. The advertising is just one thing they do with your data.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
If your bar is “we only have rights when it comes to things that we can’t live without“ then not only are you creating your own arbitrary standards that is not reflected in our society, but you should be angry if you think that’s how things work.
You have rights dude. Stop trying to win an online argument/defending businesses. There are limits.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
You are presenting a false dichotomy and ads do not have to infringe in your privacy to the degree Facebook does it. You’re reducing these arguments so much they’re losing the nuance that warrants the entire discussion. You’re also calling me childish to boot, which doesn’t give me much hope for the rest of this conversation
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
beyond how it infringes on them
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
I’m playing Devil’s advocate
Don’t it’s obnoxious.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
They can’t assign any concessions they wants that’s the entire point.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
I never said anything of the sort and I don't know why whether or not the service is mandatory matters. The issue isn't the service, it's their assumptions about what rights we do or don't have. It has to be opt-in as per GDPR, facebook by putting up a cost has made it opt-out and tied to a monthly expense.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
That is exactly what is happening here.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
What does the monetization scheme have to do with it?
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
You’re free to not own or use a car. Should we have no rights when it comes to cars as well?
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
You are conflating a lot of different things here and I’m a little too busy at work today to completely disentangle it, but the short version is that none of us are ignorant about what “free“ means online. That is not the debate here so I’m not sure why you’re going off on that when I don’t even disagree there in the first place. It’s just not relevant.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
This assumes everyone who values privacy can afford another $10mo sub in their life. People with more disposable income have better access. In an issue of consent that shouldn’t be the case.
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 7 months ago:
Perfect thank you! I bounce between Memmy app and mobile version of kbin so I get turned around a lot.
!truegaming. Bam
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 7 months ago:
Alright I’m probably being a dummy. Nothing happens when I do !kbin.social/m/truegaming.
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 7 months ago:
!truegaming it is then lol
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 7 months ago:
I know that works for Kbin users, but I’m not always 100% clear on what works for other instances, so I just go with my old habit of linking the URL. Sounds like that’s a bad habit though!
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 7 months ago:
We’ve had trouble over at truegaming getting things cooking as well. Maybe I can reach out to the mods and see if there’s some cooperation to be had here as we’re likely too fragmented at present. I’ll talk to our mod team today and see if we can think of something.
- Comment on From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services 7 months ago:
Webbys are such pay to play trash now. I wonder what it was like at that time. Now they just spam me with mailers for some reason trying to get me to spend hundreds of dollars submitting podcasts I don’t even produce it.
- Comment on From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services 7 months ago:
I might’ve misremembered it then! Probably 25% of internet users. It was from the “enshittification” defcon talk
- Comment on From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services 7 months ago:
I don’t think that’s a very fair assessment. We are a lot more aware of what “free“ is now. We weren’t informed consumers.
I also think more than ever people are now questioning what free means. So I’m not really sure how we are conditioned to trade for free when more than ever people are questioning it and adopting things like VPNs and adblockers to reassert their privacy.
- Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says 7 months ago:
Which br8!(/ back to my original question of why two countries suddenly closed the matter. What is your bar for who gets to decide what the truth is? Is it based on the size of the population they serve? GDP? Years as a country?
- Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says 7 months ago:
It was a dumb comparison and as others have pointed out, giving people mercury was not evidence-based treatment. Comparing half a century of data using quality methods and testing to mercury chugging centuries ago is profoundly ignorant.
- Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says 7 months ago:
We still do bloodletting. They have medical leeches.
- Comment on Brave, Mozilla, Vivaldi see browser installs rise on iOS 8 months ago:
Man if we could put open source software/OS’s on an iPhone and freely develop for them…I can’t even imagine what these things would be capable of. I know it’s not very popular to say anything nice about Apple, but the simple fact of the matter is that iPhones work incredibly well and, as y’all have said, the hardware is good for many years.
- Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says 8 months ago:
Why should I bother trying to educate you when you won’t even leave the article you’re arguing over?
Puberty blockers have been well-studied and widely-used since the late 1980s. They have been routinely used to pause puberty in adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria, treat children who enter puberty too early and help adults living with a range of other medical conditions.
Links included in the article btw. Go nuts. But please, by all means, tell me how we don’t have almost 40 years of research on this proving this policy is unnecessary.
- Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says 8 months ago:
We have decades of studies. You do not know what you are talking about.
- Comment on Thoughts on a few recent games 8 months ago:
Yeah but there’s something satisfying about taking down a bunch of enemies in a section you were clearly supposed to run past lol
- Comment on Study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men 8 months ago:
Or Amazon putting out that dogshit Jim Caviezel right wing trash