deftturtle

4chan is a good alternative. It has engaging comment threads and diverse interests. Really nice community and new memes. It's like the bleeding edge of the internet. /s

and this speaks to the fundamental issue: governments intrude upon new freedoms and pure environments. There is no place free of control. What right does the government have to inject itself, ultimately resorting to violence, into a new economic system.

In this way, it is the government who commits a crime, crusading into new territory and plundering those who object.

Most people don't care enough to have a bad publicity epidemic

Try Adguard's DNS content blocker. I bought the pro version to control access with a custom VPN, and that enables it to filter your cellular traffic, not just wifi. The app runs a local VPN on your iPhone, and you can block analytics domains. Here are some things I've blacklisted and prevented common apps from connecting to: settings.crashlytics.com data.flurry.com graph.facebook.com google-analytics.com adobemobiledev.sc.omtrdc.net api.leanplum.com

So you can deny connections to a lot of shady websites, and in total I'm blocking around 100 different domains.

No more web fonts from Google, no Facebook or social media connections through apps or websites, and it's great.

The force is strong with you

Whatever became of Jacob Appelbaum? Plenty of people have accused him of sexual assault, but it's been months since I've heard anything.

I'm going to be very happy when this approach succeeds. Try taking off your Google goggles.

It's just a content blocker + private browsing. Can get same functionality on desktop with private browsing and some ad blocker

Exactly. Apple needs to separate UI and security releases until they can work out the bugs. So many issues with new updates and UI glitches.

Seems very inappropriate to even allow this. It would be like allowing the page to activate your flashlight. Wtf... shouldn't allow hardware access like that.

Snapchat is very confusing and poorly designed. 100% agree with you on the intuition part.

But I don't think spectacles really has much influence on future of company; that is, Snapchat will fail or succeed for other reasons entirely. It might look expensive on paper, but the glasses project is more of a marketing stunt than a mass market product. If people don't want to use Snapchat, they won't use a device that is designed for it. So problems with the platform will make people not buy them.

The app is being copied by others, and their app also is getting worse. More features, more bugs, more ads. People promote their image and show off happiness and wealth on their stories. It has all of the negative experiences of other social networks, and it's got the sexual harassment aspect, too. Many many female friends of mine receive unwanted dick pics.

It's easy to see why they're struggling to grow. My first impression was that it was a messaging solution. Then it morphed into a social network, and some people expect to add you as a friend as casually as they would on Facebook.

In my opinion, Snapchat was more intimate and not something you just add everyone.

As a result of people adding hundreds of low-intimacy relationships to an app that was intended to be a 1-to-1 messaging solution, they are becoming disenchanted with the novelty. It's no longer fun to use Snapchat like it used to be.

Looking back, if paying $5 for the app would have kept Snapchat from doing their media stuff and led to making it a secure, encrypted platform, I would've gladly bought it. Just sad that it's become Facebook.

This is why I didn't upgrade to iOS 11. I knew it would have dumb issues. My current 10.3.3 is still buggy with lock screen and Siri stuff.... they should have an option to only use security updates but keep everything else the same. No new tricks and UI.

Yelp is extremely hostile to web users on mobile and shoves their app at you, actively blocking mobile functionality. You have to spoof user agent or request desktop site to use their service. So after realizing how hostile they are, I stopped using their service. Wasn't aware of their shady business practices in the past, and I think they've improved somewhat? My main issue with them today is their subverting of mobile web usage.

Similarly, Square Cash hides their login page on the mobile cash.me site. You have to request the desktop site and actually go to cash.me/login to have any chance of using their mobile site. It's fucking crazy.

As a photographer, I totally agree. Much easier to change settings when they're physically on the body or lens.

When are we just going to shut Monsanto down???

Windows has the same shitty tastes. Graphic design is very poor on many versions of Windows, namely those accessible to students and others not running the latest version on the latest hardware. Mac has had beautiful design that is visually clean for years, but windows has been cluttered and frustrating.

Time for some partial derivatives and supply curve modeling!

Many people think google is professional. My AP lit teacher said so. I thought it was stupid at the time, but in terms of professional capability, google offers the most services (at the cost of surveillance and advertising). And many other people would question using something like hotmail or yahoo because it's different.

Protonmail has the ability to get all your messages plaintext. Because they have to SEND your email to the recipient. Unless you encrypt the plaintext, when you jump domains and email someone outside of protonmail, they can get text

I always block images by default on new sites. If I care enough, I'll reload with images.

Apple thinks for its users in all the wrong ways.

Reader mode is the only way to read these pages. Smh indeed

> unconsttuctive and offensive ️️️

Problem solved....

Thanks for the distinction! I know plenty of non-white persons who have lots of class privilege. It's worth far more than racial privilege.

I just use a content blocker to prevent JS, CSS, fonts, and images on all websites by default. Then if I care about the site, I can change permissions.

Medium.com now loads so fast, as well as other bloated publishers and newspapers. It's amazing how many tabs I can open, and I use so little bandwidth.

I end using my phone's screen reader usually, so I don't care about appearance. Just need good stories in the <html> :)

Is this the new ask.fm? Back in 2012/13, ask.fm was very popular for a brief time. Among some high schoolers I knew, it quickly devolved into narcissistic or hateful interactions. That little bit of poison seemed to spoil the whole thing, but as a fad, it was already wearing off quickly. Once all of your friends have commented, what is there to sustain the network?

Mark, if you're reading this, I want to fight you live on FB video.

How do they pay their employees if margins are razor thin? They'd have to operate on a huge scale to have enough profit to cover expenses and especially payroll. I would love to see a comparison of the balance sheets between some German and U.S. small businesses. Small businesses don't have the huge scale to live on a razor thin margin, so that's why I'm curious.

Also surveillance avoidance. Cash is awesome for leaving fewer traces.