Well done Baku

Preach. Strong passwords, MFA and awareness of social engineering is the bulk of security on the user side.

Seeing it with a forward slash is just weird.

Saving some money short term, losing a whole bunch long term.

Same reason moms play solitaire on their phones. Just something they know to pass the time, no need for anything fancy or new.

Well: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/

Edit: it’s more loot box stuff… but it’s step one

Hmm you might be right. And if 2016 has taught us anything: it might work.

What a kamikaze of a defense…

Great point, this will happen instantly.

Yet

It’s actually optimized for them. The goal is to get users to spend time and see ads etc. The UI is not made for us users.

Devils advocate here: it’s their webservice right? They determine who can access it.

If there were legislation that would force them to make it interoperable that would be one thing. But you can’t just demand access to their infrastructure.

I’ll be sure to thank them!

Is it that bad now? I don’t use windows products in my private life, only at work. And I don’t find things that bad over there, but maybe that’s because it’s windows for business

So it must be worth a lot of money to force al of that stuff on users right?

That intro scene was so well done. It felt so real and inevitable.

This is fine imo. If you don’t want to comply, don’t. You just don’t get to extract EU data

Just go away with these “both sides” dogwhistles.

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And didn’t their president recently step down because of fraud with research data or something?

Things are going great over there.