Can we move away from the habit of just copy-pasting clickbait video titles with no information as to what they're actually about? Lemmy gives you a description field, you have the power to summarise videos which should really be blog posts!

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If they want you to use WhatsApp they can provide you with a device to use it on, then at least it's completely isolated from your own data and can't do too much harm.

This is very much their propaganda tactic, that by not watching ads you're stealing from the poor content creators, when in reality they're just chucking a few pennies to the people who actually made the videos. If you want to actually support the creators then donate to their patreon or whatever, but don't pretend that watching ads or paying for premium is doing anything more than lining the pockets of investors.

Bromite hasn't been touched for 6 months, so this is the opposite of duplicating effort, it's an effort to save the project!

You're allowed to type fuck on the internet you know

You have a whole instance under lemdro.id, right? So why not create a sister community just for the memes?

Assuming this is on an android phone with the normal Google Play Services on it then you should expect that Google can theoretically read anything that appears on it. It's probably not that sinister though, I don't imagine anything is being sent away and logged (though it theoretically could be!), there's probably just some process which reads every incoming notification and if it thinks it sounds like a task then it offers you the prompt. Is this some setting you haven't disabled in Google Assistant?

FYI you don't need apps that pretend to be a VPN to block ads anymore, you can just go to Settings > Network and Internet > Private DNS and set it to something like dns.adguard.com to block almost all ads, no install required!

This isn't even enshittification, this is just Google still not having their shit together somehow after all these years

I can't even get too mad at this, it makes complete sense for an OS to have built-in malware scanning because casual users will unintentionally install dodgy shit. The key thing is that those of us who don't want Google having a nosey through our device can still disable it trivially, because if that option goes then suddenly we're as bad as Windows!

https://ttrpg.network is a tabletop roleplaying game focused instance run by the people who ran r/dndnext

https://mander.xyz/ has lots of cool science and nature news and pics

Tape your bank card to the back of your phone

Will it though? It's essentially public info already, and is a core part of how Lemmy works.

I hate and love this post, as Gollum hates and love The Ring and himself

Drinking alcohol or buying it? Because in Britain it's 18 to buy it yourself but 5 to have it at home.

Never mind the American politics nonsense, Brave has a history of slightly dodgy behaviour. Replacing websites ads with their own, keeping donations meant for creators, hijacking referral links and adding in their own, a lot of cryptocurrency shenanigans, and that's just what's on Wikipedia!

It's not about being a hassle to maintain, it's about users thinking they were sending secure messages when they weren't. The simplest explanation is that Signal is a secure messenger, so the app shouldn't let you send insecure messages. I'm sure it lost them a few users but they're not trying to gain maximum market share like for-profit orgs try to.

Did we all forget the first rule of going online, to never share personal information, especially on a public forum!

You really should state up front that this is USA only