“Self defense”

Professional procrastinator, PhD

The point is that it’s a loophole in privacy laws so they don’t have to outright tell people that they collect personal or identifying information. So they can legally mislead people by claiming it’s anonymous telemetry in hopes that users don’t actually look into it or understand the implications.

“Satan fires hellfire minister beelzebub”

You shouldn’t get to participate in an international organization while murdering the aid workers employed by said organization.

This is just another attempt to destroy the UN.

Burh Israel literally, explicitly called for the UN to be destroyed, and named them a terrorist organization (and of course also played the antisemitic card).

Ad firm money.

Maybe I’m just cynical, but my first instinct when I see stuff like this is they have a secret contract with an advertiser and are selling this information.

Like if you’re going to use Arch btw, go all the way and use actual Arch.

Those are absolutely ways of covertly identifying your device while technically not counting as “personal information” under privacy laws.

It’s not fucking over Microsoft, it’s prevent Microsoft from fucking us over. Microsoft is not the victim in this.

When a duck reaches a high enough level, it evolves into a goose, which builds on all the features of the duck but turns them up to 11

Does Israel not see how similarly to Hitler they’re acting?

Or is that the point and their express intent is to perpetuate their very own holocaust against people they themselves deem the Untermensch?

I mean, I know the answer, but

It’s not about if it’s successful or not, it’s about the US having dug in to this and wanting to keep up the tough facade they so desperately want other countries to fear.

Trusting your security to Google is literally like trusting a fox to guard your hen house.

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Reminder that at the outbreak of WWII, TONS of people in the US supported the Nazi regime right up until they started invading Western Europe AKA “the countries that matter”

Don’t be silly, the US doesn’t help people, that’s un-American commie shit.

Narrator: He won’t

This video from a security researcher says that pretty much every software that uses WebP was affected though, and once the issue was discovered, Google made commits in their own codebase to “fix” it. Which suggests it’s an issue with the upstream source code that Google provided to everyone else.

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