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There are a few things that come to my mind, reading your thoughts and observations.

Everyone can do the same activity as I do, go the same places. Buy the same things. But nobody can have the same face as me. In this way, things do not seem comparable. Privacy is at risk on another level.

Also, I feel it is in tendency easier to understand the risks and potential abuse of your picture being online as compared to the risks and abuse when google knows what you type into their search field.

No. There might be the perfect suiting product to me. There is, however, a huge red flag for all these companies and products. This usually drives my buying decisions (against them).

The examples taken from instagram are probably very region specific and further matching a profile.

However, I must agree that IG ads got worse and worse. So what is very common here:

1. Take a stock picture of Americans lining up for petrol at a petrol station because of an extreme situation/limitation.

2. Link to a website that looks like a normal webshop (the ad is done by an account that only exists on facebook and its page is empty, not promoting a shop)

3. The user gets redirected from the shop website (that actually exists and can be loaded manually from desktop) to a fake website, that looks like the website of the largest local news outlet.

4. There is an article about how to get rich with crypto and some celebs promote it. On the bottom of the page you can register with your phone number. You will get redirected to a trading platform that most likely rips you off.

Way to go instagram. Allowing scammers to their platform.

For me the Apple ID has always been the one and only.

What I got later on as an unwanted extra, was an @icloud.com email address that was linked with my existing Apple ID.

If you do not live in an area covered by them (which is the majority), it is the same as you say. Situation is not perfect here, either.

I have been following the market of NFT closely lately and I even asked several people involved.

Nobody could yet answer me questions such as:

-As the owner of an NFT that represents a digital object, lets say an image.

How can I be sure there is no other NFT representing the exact same image?

How can I be sure there is no other NFT representing the image in another format?

Can I claim anything (ownership, royalty fees, ...) of the digital object that the NFT in my possession represents?

Would that claim hold up in any court in this world?

For physical objects the same questions can be asked.

Honestly, using it for daily hotel searches for 500 days: The reviews are not worthless.

It requires a lot of sorting out and the results have to be taken with a grain of salt.

At the same time content providers are trying to make it as difficult as possible to 'steal' their videos and images.

Forget it with the Grundrecht. If there is something that the past 16 months have shown clearly, it is that neither the constitutional nor other fundamental rights do apply when needed.

Same here. Especially the law that ignores human rights and enforces discrimination. I do not consider myself part of that community anymore. (edit: in terms of, these are not the values I grew up with)

Interestingly, at the same time humans are said to have the capability of knowing the consequences of their actions as a very prominent distinction from animals.

Humans and other species adapted to deal with climate change in the course of thousands if not millions of years. If we seriously managed to change this within a century, I am fine with us being doomed.

Yes. This proposal was more a way to redistribute wealth than fighting climate change.

Working from home makes me feel antisocial and it feels weird. No screen that show humans can replace humans.

This doesnt sound like a company that tries to hide and cheat but actually applies self reflection.

Sure, below the line its about profits.

Sidenote regarding whatsapps way to make users behave in their intended way:

Today whatsapp really annoyingly started reminding me that my old version will not be supported starting tomorrow. The popup appeared 20 times this morning already. So I updated to the next version (not the current one), as this has nothing to do with the 'feared' privacy changes. Now, whatsapp gives me full 9 days to update again, before it wont work anymore.

I would love to see a fight between anti and pro covid fanatics.

I have travelled South East Asia for several years and never been asked to show any proof.

Whereas the technological aspect and questions are very interesting, this certificate has the sole purpose to divide the people.

I am devastated to see this coming.

I am from Switzerland and I would like to be certified to be free of anxiety disorder regarding Covid.

Login alone does not help for age restricted videos.

First step towards automatically stop using youtube. It their choice really.

This was so obvious. But who will pay and feed these former employees?

I really wonder what kind of hospital treatment is given to people who suffer from gambling with cryptocurrencies specifically (as opposed to casino gamblers).

Can be solved with reverse payments (yes, there are things to consider!).

That a transaction is final is not a flaw but one of the main features.

What most people do not understand, cryptocurrencies do only define the technology itself.

It does (and can) not define how it is used and also abused.

It is, eg. obvious that Bitcoin was made with the idea of representing a coin, a mean of payment. However, it is clear by now, that Bitcoin will never be a mean of payment. In contrast, it is mostly used as investment.

Also, you can not simply ban any cryptocurrency. The technology can not be 'stopped'. The lawmaker could only disallow it for this and that use.

This shows me in a most certain way, that it is no coincidence that it is impossible to deactivate location services quickly in CC on iOS.

Not surprising, as the average age is quite high (39) and the lack of a properly funded retirement pension

Does curbing SARS-CoV-2 delay the end of the pandemic?

Imho there is kind of a responsibility to the user to know what he is doing and what his actions do imply.

If you take an image with a GPS enabled camera, yes that information along others can be saved as metadata.

Sure, tech companies try to abstract the functionalities, making it more difficult to see and understand. Still, this can not be an excuse to just do things not unknowingly.

i use jailbreak to control my location better - i can more easily de/activate it and spoof my location.

Now, I noticed a weird behaviour. I am not sure if its a 'bug' due to jailbreak, or if it shows how apps can access location.

The setup is as follows: location services are completely deactivated system-wide. a spoof location is set.

This means, I am not able in any way to access/share my location, neither the real nor the spoofed one.

However, when someone shares a location with me, upon displaying it on a map, instead of the location shared the spoofed one will be displayed along the correct address of the shared location.

ok, i dont know how iOS manages location services. still it is not nice at all to see that somehow an app can access a location, even if its spoofed and by error.

regarding the article: you can tell your phone not to give fb any location data. but why would you take a picture with location data and upload it to facebook? its so obvious and straight-forward that the user simply undermines his own privacy.