Meta's promise "that it’s adding ads to WhatsApp with privacy in mind does not make me trust this new feature,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @FastCompany@flipboard.com. “Ads that are targeted based on your personal data are a privacy nightmare, no matter what app they’re on.” https://www.fastcompany.com/91353012/meta-is-bringing-ads-to-whatsapp-privacy-experts-are-sounding-the-alarm

silicon valley be like :



what if your doorbell sold your personal data

what if your taxi sold your personal data

what if your hotel sold your personal data

what if your alarm clock sold your personal data

what if your watch sold your personal data

what if your walkman sold your personal data

what if your

I vaguely remember when MSN Messenger started with #ads, which drove me to other clients like #Pidgin and exploring #XMPP and #SelfHosting

So, I wish all disgruntled #Whatsapp users a happy journey, whatever direction they may go!

15 hours left and just a little bit more than €5000 needed. Let's go for the final stretch! #PeerTube deserves YOUR support :)

https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/?mtm_campaign=JPTMobileApp25&mtm_source=Framanav&mtm_placement=Alert1

No hard feeling with GNOME but once KDE can sort out there release schedule I do hope we start seeing the return of KDE as the primary desktop on Linux, becoming the face that GNOME has been for many years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3NOnF_MzQ

Linux Standards Are Kind Of A Mess #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/02nFos3iHlo

how is arch easier to install than windows

that isnt even sarcasm, how are we at this point

Nintendo will take your Switch 2 offline forever if you use a Mig flash cartridge https://www.theverge.com/news/688483/nintendo-switch-2-ban-error-code-mig-flash-cartridge-online

🎉 I'm happy for Peertube! The campaign has ended and they have reached their final goal: https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

#krita #peertube

Someone made the "pre-LLM text is low-background radiation steel" meme real https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/why-one-man-is-archiving-human-made-content-from-before-the-ai-explosion/

Back in 2006, AOL tried something incredibly bold and even more incredibly *stupid*: they dumped a data-set of 20,000,000 "anonymized" search queries from 650,000 users (yes, AOL had a search engine - there used to be *lots* of search engines!):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/19/privacy-breach-by-design#bringing-home-the-beacon

1/

"It feels like I'm attending a funeral. But the funeral isn't just for Geocities... It was more than just another lousy webpage from the 1990s. It was who I was 12 years ago. The places I linked...the places that linked to me"

No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new #DataBreach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach/

#cybersecurity #privacy

Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-user-has-30-years-of-irreplaceable-photos-and-work-locked-away-in-onedrive-and-microsofts-silence-is-deafening

YouTubers Surprised That Google Uses Their Videos to Train AI Models https://petapixel.com/2025/06/20/youtubers-surprised-that-google-uses-their-videos-to-train-its-ai-models-veo-3/ #artificialintelligence #aivideogenerator #Technology #youtuber #youtube #gemini #google #News #veo3 #Law

I am so happy that even though it's the current design trend we have people in KDE that aren't just accepting the degradation of readable interfaces in the pursuit of "modern UI design", I've never understood the "KDE looks old" idea, it's not old it's timeless.