This is a patently ignorant and ridiculous statement. They absolutely shove their own store garbage every release and upsell Nitro at every opportunity. Here's an article from last year about them explicitly introducing third party ads.
Well, concernedc1tizen, I don't like it when people spout of misinformation. Especially when it comes to deep societal issues like pervasive advertising. Making thoughtless and inaccurate blanket statements hurts the overall discussion.
"Belligerence" as you call it is direct, unambiguous, and will probably be remembered.
But I've never seen these ads myself, so it's surprising.
The Americans do take pervasive advertising to the next level though, with product placement, "influencers", and other deceptive tactics. Their behaviors are a major cost to the legal system, because more legislation has to be introduced to govern against their obviously anti-social and exploitative behavior.
> I would define ads as promoting other businesses' products, as you would see on YouTube etc.
They do that, they call them "quests". Companies pay them to promote their product/service and users get rewards for doing a task (like playing a game, watching a video, etc.) https://discord.com/ads/quests
I've found Jeep owners are their own brand of crazy. It's probably one of the few car cults that would endlessly put up with this kind of abuse because they just can't imagine NOT making their Jeep the core part of their identity.
Honestly this would be an improvement over the status quo. You get a choice in the matter, and unlike it being sprung on you after you bought it, you presumably would know upfront.
I'd prefer that a credible journal do that as that would be even better. Also the idea of "journalists try not to be part of the story" should preclude product testing on verifiable claims is a really bizarre stance to take.
I don't see how the anonymity of the maintainers of Librewolf are at all relevant to this discussion. You're just doing a gish gallop argument and undermining your credibility.
Doing a PhD will not solve or improve your money woes and is extremely unlikely to take you to the career you want. In fact if the stipend is what is going to drive you to a graduate school, you should reconsider the whole thing entirely.
I probably phrased it wrong. I need enough money to support myself throughout the grad school: decent room, decent gym and other basics. Yet I am not in it for money. If I prioritized a fat check I would have stayed in the industry as an SWE.
Wow, I absolutely hate this. We do not need "a new, better social platform" with founders from Reddit and Powered by AI!!!!™
Maybe we should consider, you know, new social media platforms that are build and designed by communities of people that need them and will use them. This top down approach by tech oligarchs with insatiable dollar signs in their eyes over providing anything of actual value will just lead to more misery and worthlessness.
The social media business model of harvesting data and forcing engagement over user experience has proven to be broken and not sustainable. I hope they fail.
Everyone mentioned in the article knows how to run a large social media site. The concrete ideas they have for AI are specific tasks that they have done by hand before. They're not just slapping AI on and optimizing for engagement.
And the future ideas are more like crazy art projects, which I think is a great use for AI.
To say nothing of the fact that most people are not running their own email servers so that messaging is going to reside in places they don't own and the fact that relays get to read about everything exacerbating that problem, so you cannot really expect forward secrecy:
Does this solve all the other problems with encrypted email, which is not widely used for a reason?
messaging is going to reside in places they don't own
but that is the case with every messenger that stores messages on your behalf. telegram, whatsapp, signal... with those ALL people are not running their own servers.
whatsapp and signal store encrypted copies of the messages, and so does deltachat.
beyond that each client also stores a copy of each message locally. as does deltachat.
in difference to all others at least with deltachat i have a choice to use a different server that i trust. with whatsapp and signal i don't have that choice.
Does this solve all the other problems with encrypted email
it doesn't solve all of them but a few at least. i don't believe using pgp itself is a problem. if it was deltachat could replace it with another better encryption.
metadata is a problem. that could be solved by removing messages from the email server and storing them elsewhere. (or storing them back on the server with the metadata removed). that doesn't prevent intermediate mail forwarders from keeping a copy though.
i think that is the real problem. deltachat doesn't control the communication channel and can't prevent leaking. i don't know how matrix or jabber compare here. if they use intermediate servers to forward messages the problem would remain.
message content leaking is not a problem because messages won't ever be decrypted on the server.
long term secret leaking is a problem tied to the current implementation of pgp. deltachat could change that (and maybe it does?)
> most people are not running their own email servers
I honestly don't care about what the people I communicate with do, as long as I have the capability to at least own my persistent identifier (i.e. my TLD).
Just having that capability exerts just the right type of pressure on large service providers to maintain a baseline quality of service, regardless of whether the majority actually makes use of it or not, just like phone number portability has done in that domain.
This is absolutely a black box in terms of what this is supposed to do, either here where you're trying to promote it nor on the hosted app page where it is even more crucial. I have no idea what the intent of this is other than "personal app". All you did do is type a lot of empty hype words.
This is a patently ignorant and ridiculous statement. They absolutely shove their own store garbage every release and upsell Nitro at every opportunity. Here's an article from last year about them explicitly introducing third party ads.
https://techbriefly.com/2024/04/01/discord-introduces-ads-to...
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