Predators do it for the hunt, not because of hate or fanaticism.

How to tell when scientific research doesn’t have to worry about oversight.

It’s not allowed, but then again, I’m not in the US.

You already have one. It’s called your payment provider.

Best way to keep yourself warm is to wear a mask and keep the moisture leaking the warmth trapped. It’s funny how many people who lived through the pandemic seem to have forgotten this. They might as well be this guy in regards to getting colds.

They also use browser fingerprinting, session information, and geolocation, powered by generative AI. IP can easily be cycled in most ISPs, so they’d end up hurting themselves if they just used that.

The only true alternative is to just have more alts, one for specific interests where each each individual one is not enough to ban you. Platforms that clearly have thrived off of them should facilitate people using them instead of using it as an excuse to ban people when they want to.

It also doesn’t help when those platforms are deliberately trying to harvest as much personal data they can off of their users and often have engagement bait posts to get their users to get them to identify increasingly personal data about themselves that is otherwise nothing anyone would care about.

I’m not really surprised, in a lot of ways Lemmy and its fediverse is even more susceptible, although you don’t need bots when a lot of people are as braindead as many of them, you just need to filter out susceptible users into cults-on-demand and brainwash them into acting like them.

Disable your laptop webcam and microphone, use headset instead. I’ll be looking to see if I can switch to Teams web.

I remember how a subcontractor’s company called me with a lot of private information I assume the subcontractor had spoken to them about. The subcontractor had no clue about it, which completely changed how I had been perceiving the situation. The problem is companies are using the excuse of keeping tabs on their workers to perform outright continuous surveillance on them and try to see how they can exploit any and all information they can salvage for their benefit, which becomes a problem when there is no clear division between personal and professional space.