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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is one of those cases where we can’t let perfection be the enemy of action. I myself I’m in the middle of degoogling as well, and it’s a process that is taking a few months now (and will take some more).

  But even if you use a googled android and still use some of their services, simply not defaulting to them for everything goes a long way. Use other browsers, use other search engines, use other email providers, etc.

  But the point I was making was more about the privacy side of things. I don’t believe that leaving those AI features on or off makes that much difference at the end of the day. Google will still spy on your content, and if they want to, they will use it for AI training regardless.

  I know that their policies and whatnot might say differently, but I don’t trust that they respect them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooorrrrrr… You knowww… Delete or stop using your google account and their services?

  Because if what actually bothers you is the idea that Google is spying on your things with Gemini…

  First: lol. lmao even.

  Second: Sorry for the laugh, but that’s because I believe that they don’t need gemini to do that, they do it anyway regardless of your settings.

  Case in point, last year google was sentenced to pay a fine because they were collecting data from their users, even though those users had tracking turned off in their settings. And I believe it wasn’t the first time, but I can’t be arsed to search for older examples.

  An ad company that has trackers almost everywhere on the web and tracks you even if you’re not using their services, that understanding and studying your behaviour is a central part of their business model; and you believe that they won’t spy and track you because you asked them not to? C’mon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paid Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod targeted by CD Projekt Red in DMCA takedown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CDPR is extremely lax with modders. Reading the article, looks like the culprit is the fact that it’s paywalled

  I’m not against modders earning something for their work, but it should be through donations imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla to Require Data-Collection Disclosure in All New Firefox Extensions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … this wasn’t a thing already?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember in the past these event sales being much, much better. I remember the discounts being higher, at least 50%. And 90% and 80% were a lot more common.

  I think that’s the actual crux of the matter. These weekly sales throughout the year always existed, it’s the events that don’t feature as big discounts as they used to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A one-week boycott is completely ineffective by design.

  Amazon’s executives aren’t sweating over losing a week of your business. They’re a trillion-dollar company that thinks in quarters and years, not days. They’ll gladly wait out this symbolic week of inconvenience.

  The moment you put an expiration date on your boycott, you’ve surrendered all leverage. They have zero incentive to change anything because they know you’ll be back ordering Prime deliveries next Monday.

  Real - actual - boycotts work by creating genuine economic pressure that forces companies to reconsider their practices. They require commitment, not just temporarily pausing your shopping habits.

  Emphasis on >habits<, because we’re not talking about political parties, it’s a shop. A humongous shop for sure, but still a shop, and you can buy what you want from other places.

  If you want to actually impact Amazon, you need to be willing to walk away indefinitely until they address your concerns. Otherwise, it’s just performative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s so stupid. Boycott only works if it’s indefinite, because you want the company to try to win you back.

  If you say that you are coming back, what exactly are you expecting to happen? They’ll change nothing because you already said that you are coming back