• lime!
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    394 days ago

    by the way some people talk here you’d think “telemetry” was a synonym to “satanism”.

    telemetry is not automatically evil.

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        4 days ago

        and if there were laws with actual penalties which ensured that it was only used for providing the service and not assimilated into a data broker database so that their clients can guess which shampoo I’m going to buy or which brown people they can kidnap.

        A man can dream

          • @[email protected]
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            23 days ago

            The vast majority of progress on privacy rights and electronics regulation for the US Consumer is because of EU regulations.

            We’re unlikely to see any progress domestically anytime soon.

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        64 days ago

        since 99% of users never touch a single setting on their computers, being opt-in makes telemetry functionally useless.