Define “failed”?

Microsoft is a business. If they aren’t able to sell phones, they fail. Linux doesn’t sell anything and yet is able to keep trucking for 30 years.

Can Linux mobile hardware OEMs fail? Can and have. But the software community presses on. Not as quickly as I would like but they press on regardless.

Yes, it is the lazy way to secure accounts. No defense there.

Yeah this is the cancer that is email 2FA.

Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account. But this is very much not exclusive to Rockstar.

I changed my email a couple of years ago and it’s absolutely astonishing how many companies are completely unequipped to deal with someone changing or deleting their email account.

The problem is there are lots of places where fighting makes sense but you have no control. 99% will turn all their info over without batting an eye.

I was invited to an event recently on Partiful. If you’re unfamiliar, this is the company founder by a bunch of former Palantir execs. The only way to RSVP or see the event info or get updates or anything else is to turn over your phone number. I told the person who invited me that I wasn’t comfortable giving these people my info and they responded along the lines of “okay, don’t come”.

I went to a food truck a while back and they wouldn’t even give me a menu or accept my order at the window. Told me I needed to download, order and pay through their shitty app.

Anyone who has my contact information volunteers it in it’s entirety to any shitty app that asks for it. They upload pictures of me (along with the according metadata) to surveillance databases without my consent or knowledge, thinking nothing of it.

Piefedizens, ofc

He’s not even that rich

When you’re President they let you do it.

There was recently a project I was looking into. The only way to contact them was Reddit and Discord. Made a post on Reddit with a several years old account. It was instantly removed by Reddit admin with no explanation. It was not spicy in any way. Literally just asking a question about the project. Fuck me, I guess. Moved on to another project.

Holy shit, and it doesn’t require an xbox account!

It’s true. I use Brave as well. They have several novel privacy features that no one else does. And although the company has a checkered history, I still think it’s the best (for now). I just wish more FOSS devs would take notes and implement these privacy features in other browsers.

There are plenty of music services that aren’t trying to do that.

Yeah I’ll never forget the first time I saw someone just casually browsing IMGUR and I was like WTF are you doing?

They’ve had the first 3 for a while

I am not misunderstanding you. You just do not understand what E2EE means. Th server is not a sender or a recipient. It is not an “end”.

Oh, I didn’t realize they said they wouldn’t sell your information, despite having a privacy policy that explicitly allows for it. My mistake. No one would just lie on the internet like that…

You’re very brave to make such a suggestion around here.

Unfortunately YouTube Premium doesn’t solve any of the horrendous problems YouTube has. Using a third party client is the only thing that does.

God bless NLNet. They’re being back Mobilizón too!

I don’t have an “anchor point” other than what’s what’s fair and respectful of your customers. “We’re going to collect as much data about you as we can to sell to advertisers” is neither.

I’m so fucking sick and tired of everyone saying “WELL EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING IT TOO!” as if that’s any sort of defense. The world is fucked. You do you but I’m gonna do whatever I can not to contribute to it.