possibly never going to happen

Cookie Clicker

like drugs... just say no

at least Reddit showed the upvote - downvote balance, YouTube only shows upvotes, which is a completely useless number.

I don't think these are permissions, just a list of collected data categories. Google Play's equivalent is the "Data Safety" section and lists the data collected, shared with third parties, and security practices in use. Basically just a more readable privacy policy, but agreeing to that by installing the app does not grant the app with the equivalent permissions automatically.

oh boy, I wish youtube kills itself like reddit is doing right now so decentralized alternatives can become widely adopted

The only time I saw a data breach changing user behavior was with LastPass scandal last year. Unless it's literally the people's bank account passwords that's at stake, I don't think most would care at all.

I agree, regulation - either enforced by the platform or authorities - may as well be the only way.

thankfully it's usually the other way around: the glass is opaque and only transparent with power. So you don't need to worry about an ill-timed power outage.

grabs popcorn

https://lemmy.ml/robots.txt , https://lemmy.world/robots.txt , etc don't seem to disallow posts, so the text-based content should be easy to index, at least for these instances.

related news: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts.

"Desktop OS" also counts laptops. Unless people are working from their smartphones, I don't think desktop is collapsing at all.

it's a social network. Some people do post things related to health and fitness, and it's another gold mine of private data for ad targeting, so from a business perspective it makes sense to have features that integrate Instagram with these health and fitness gadgets.

This list is a summary of the data they may collect. Using these apps don't mean you're handing all this info automatically. Most of these are actually voluntarily shared e.g. when the user connects a fitness app to it; or actively requested e.g. when they make use of location sharing in the in-app chat.

The more in-app functionality a user makes use of, the more data they'll hoard about that user.

I'll stick to a FOSS option without ads

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They're not permissions, they're the types of data that may be collected. Every popular closed source app has a similar obscene list of private data they may collect, but in most cases it's the user that chooses to provide that kind of information voluntarily anyways.

And even if open source doesn't fit their business model for any reason, there should be regulations that force these companies to open source everything in any situation that they stop offering support.

5 years ago: Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases.

Is there a web archive equivalent to github repos? At least for the most popular ones.

I know there are hard copies in Svalbard's seed vault, but they're more for a one-in-thousands-of-years post-apocalyptic scenarios than this.

- the victim was having a fever, your honor!

The devs are calling it alpha themselves.

How long does it usually take for google to index websites?

Anything between a couple of hours to more than a week, I don't think having a "real-time feed" through Google is important though. Other than world cup scores, their results were never about speed.