Tech companies touting privacy with “trust us bro” slogan

Saying “fuck you” would be more like “we’re no longer selling devices in uk and iCloud won’t work anymore”

Show them this: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/whatsapp-wins-reprieve-in-india-over-user-data-sharing/

The dispute began when WhatsApp required users to accept expanded data sharing with Meta’s platforms or risk losing access to the messaging service. While European users can opt out of such sharing, Indian users cannot — a distinction that regulators found problematic.

Meta doesn’t know what you’re talking about, because WhatsApp is e2ee. But they know:

• who are you talking to
• when
• how often
• what else were you doing before/during/after the talk
• links that are shared (the preview fetch is not e2ee afaik)

These are all valuable metadata and given enough of it, they can even infer what you were talking about. Target you with ads on their other platforms (but rumors are that WhatsApp will have ads inside eventually)

That’s why Legends Arceus is my favorite game. Catching Pokémon is a joy instead of a tedious activity to be avoided. I hoped they’d keep the mechanics, maybe next game. I even liked lets go Pikachu more than others because it had a different mechanism at least.

what am I missing now that I got as a kid?

Free time. Pokemon games are, and always have been, very slow and grindy. Even in the latest entry (Violet) you need to actively avoid encounters since animations take so long

I install some local adblocker to their devices and they don’t see those ads

Did you miss when its founder sided with Republicans (the current ones, mind you) or are you ok with it?

He might be born on 1988, although I could not verify this. He started his PhD on 2009, that’d make him 21 at that time, which is not unusual