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Now that they are going public I think every real user will have to identify themselves. The way they do it I think will be a staggered rollout of requests. So they use the guise of this algorithm to state that no everybody will need to verify but when it’s your turn to provide your ID they just wait for the next instance and lock the account to teen level until you do it. Given they say they will do ongoing monitoring to place an age group, this I don’t think is far fetched and increases the value of the profiles for the shareholders.
This would make a mass exodus nearly impossible too as too many people already sit in the side of it’s not a problem if it does not effect me. The result is it will effect just not enough people to cause such a large exodus.
I don’t think this spect is talked about enough. Companies that enshitify don’t do it all at once. It’s bite by bite.
(Not a doctor just surrounded by them)
I could go on and on, but I would rather face down one tyrant than an army of them. But the way things are going, we might be facing both soon.
On the other hand thing like cars really should have an all inclusive price sticker. They already have an itemized price sticker on the car so there is really nothing stoping these sellers from putting the remaining fees and taxes on there two as that should be consistent with the same dealer location and with such low inventory.
Normally when you sign up to you a service you are also giving that service provider access to your work. If that is the case here this access would exist outside of the license listed on any given GitHub repo as a separate agreement from the general public.
Remember that what he says means nothing. It’s what he does that matters.
I see the value of doing something like this but at the same time I see it being abused far more than helping for it’s intended purpose.
The issue is that it will not be limited to messages. People are not dumb, they will share information in ways that another medium is used like a word doc or online note pad then just share the decrypt password over messages. So even if this starts off with messages it will just force these people to use other means and leave the rest of us vulnerable for nothing.
I think I would be more open to this if governing bodies were to also write in extremely harsh punishment for leaks, misuse, or abuse of this system so much so that no company would dare use this as another means of gathering metrics. Nor slack on the security of the mechanism required to scan the messages. Far too long has our private information gone unchecked and when leaks happen companies claim ignorance and no or minor punishments are handed out. This mind set and way of doing business cannot transfer to encrypted data.
One reason the EU did this is to bring to light the tracking habits of websites and give some power to the user. Much like Apple did with their do not track me button on IPhone. A lot of people opted to not be tracked but before just didn’t have the option or were oblivious to being tracked to begin with. And trust me being as secretive as possible for tracking is by design. It’s scary the amount of info a website can get from your browser.