This news has been circulating for the couple of days, but the data is mostly public information and some “non public” (but not the result of hacking, so I assume private, commercial databases?) information.
The big takeaway is that so much of our lives end up on the public internet and when it does we lose control. Unfortunately, there is no way out of this.
I’m in the UK and I pay 25 pounds per month for unlimited data with 3. I like it because I get free roaming in a lot of countries.
On the other hand I pay 35 pounds per month for a 70Mb line that’s down for several hours every week which forces me to pay an additional 20 pounds per month on a 4G home router.
By default, Firefox sends telemetry data to Mozilla and has a persistent websocket connection for push notifications. People are annoyed that they claim to be privacy friendly while their defaults are not.
ASP.NET Core is actually quite nice to work with, I’ve been using it for a couple of years together with F# on Linux and it’s great.
According to this researcher, TikTok does not collect any more data than any other social app. Unlike the reddit post, this one contains some proof of what they collect and how to reproduce the results yourself.
This is the light theme I’m using now. I find light themes to be easier on my eyes. …
I’m also worried they don’t provide any warning to users that use the default GBoard keyboard, which sends pretty much everything you type to Google (or has the ability to do that).