Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
I want to say I appreciate when thereās a link to the previous one, as after a week itās nice to see what substacks were posted since.
the identity-devouring worldcoin sphere ordered to delete user data by a german data protection office over gdpr noncompliance https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/12/19/german-watchdog-orders-sam-altmans-biometric-id-project-world-to-delete-data
On Thursday, the German data protection authority, the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA), concluded a months-long investigation into World and stated that its identification procedure āentails a number of fundamental data protection risks for a large number of data subjectsā that does not comply with the European Unionās General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
āWith todayās decision, we are enforcing European fundamental rights standards in favour of data subjects in a technologically demanding and legally highly complex case,ā said BayLDA president Michael Will.
is it? itās another fucking crypto scam
Put this up about 20 minutes late, so Iām starting off by saying Honey got exposed
When I was young I knew people who installed those āget money for moving your mouseā things, and they never got a dime. So I always mentally ignore these things as scams. āit is just free moneyā is quite the red flag.
Minor gripe with the video āif they product is free you are likely the productā isnāt true imho. You are always also the product, unless they explicitly go out of their way to make it clear you are not the product (and even then you cannot be totally sure). You canāt pay your way out of the rot economy. In fact, as you are now a person who spends money, Iād think the value of your data actually goes up. A database filled with data of users who never spend a dime online seems like it would be almost useless to me.
As someone whoās never even considered interacting with any part of this whole system, this is really funny honestly. Itās like a matryoshka of shady business practices.
Wow, Iāve been saying for years that this extension is shady as fuck. Nice to see that itās getting some attention.
I didnāt expect it to steal affiliate cookies, but that they let you control which codes it āfindsā isnāt even a secret, and I thought people know this. But every time I mentioned this on Reddit I was downvoted and called a liar.
I must have been living under a rock/a different kind of terminally online, because I had only ever heard of Honey through Dan Olsonās riposte to Doug Walkerās The Wall, which describes Doug Walker delivering āan uncomfortably over-acted ad for online data harvesting scam Honeyā (35:43).
Making money via stealing commissions from affiliate links, tbf, wasnāt the business model I was suspecting from Honey. I always thought they were scamming but I thought it was going to be from selling your browsing data or something similar. Then again, they still might do that.
Holy shit. Managed to never run into them due to sponsorblock but the ways mega corps find ways to extract money out of everyone never ceases to amaze
I remember when the Dark Reader addon was advertising them years ago, they were doing their shit for a pretty long time
