Tsobaphomet
Tsobaphomet t1_jb583fa wrote
Reply to comment by ericneo3 in New Bill Could Ban TikTok, Other Foreign Technology Products in US Over Data Collection Concerns by donnygel
Yeah I wonder when people will realize that the average US citizen has been getting scammed their whole life.
One fun example is how the US is the only country in the world where you will get shamed for not moving out of your family home in your 20s. It's totally normal everywhere else in the world to live with your family forever.
The scam here is that more people will be encouraged to leave home to pay $2000 a month for an apartment. It prevents them from ever saving up money, and keeps them working for the rest of their life to chase the carrot on a stick. If they do manage to break free from renting, they'll be paying $750,000 for a home that should be $120,000.
Every single thing in this country is designed for someone to get a lot of money.
Tsobaphomet t1_jb55m97 wrote
Reply to New Bill Could Ban TikTok, Other Foreign Technology Products in US Over Data Collection Concerns by donnygel
I never really understood the fear of data collection. You can google a random name and you will be able to see that person's current address, past addresses, their phone number, their children's names, their children's phone numbers, their parent's names/numbers/addresses, grandparents, neighbors, etc, who they have voted for, what they do for a living, the store they work at, their social media accounts, every picture they have taken over the past 15 years, the school they graduated from, their friends from highschool, a random picture of them smiling on google images, and so much more.
I'm not even making that up. Half of it is just one google search away, the rest would take digging, but seriously, we do not have the privacy people are so desperate to defend. So what if an app like facebook uses the information they gather to serve you targeted ads.
If you say the words "Kraft Macaroni" outloud, your phone will hear it and start showing you ads for Kraft Macaroni. Since I've just typed "Kraft Macaroni" three times, I will most likely start getting ads for it within the next 2 days.
Long story short, banning a fun app doesn't fix anything, it just makes people a little more miserable than they should be.
Tsobaphomet t1_j9bshm9 wrote
Reply to A first-generation iPhone from 2007 sold for $63,356 at auction — more than 100 times its original price by dakiki
Are Apple fans okay?
Tsobaphomet t1_j1km8s2 wrote
Reply to comment by Black_RL in Microsoft will fight U.S. over $68.7-billion Activision Blizzard deal by Brook030
Yeah Sony has so many exclusives that people who are diehard fans of the franchises can't even play the games. Like PC Dark Souls fans never getting to touch Bloodborne. I don't think it was ever even confirmed that CoD would be Xbox/PC exclusive either.
Their partnership is less about making everything for Xbox, and more about teaming up for some perceived metaverse gaming meme.
Tsobaphomet t1_jb58i65 wrote
Reply to comment by NameLips in New Bill Could Ban TikTok, Other Foreign Technology Products in US Over Data Collection Concerns by donnygel
nope, only the ones that don't make them any money