Most of the world is being spied in with AI cameras, streets, Walmart, etc. most likely even McDonald’s cameras.

Just installed that yesterday lol

That’s what bugs me the most, it used to be everyone making awesome fun videos, but then Linus is now the host of EVERY video. It’s just not the same

But the sources are listed below on Wikipedia, not in lemmy.

I get no ads, and I’m not logged in for them to track me and sell my data.

I just put stickers on the selfie camera.

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I know of a YouTuber called the blind homesteader. He has family and friends help him. They have quite the homestead and he often helps the community around his homestead too.

Use a virtual card like the ones from privacy. You can select if it’s a one time payment or a monthly payment and set limits.

It saved me many times from companies charging me way more than I agreed to. (Bought a phone and never activated it, they tried to charge me $150 the next year, but I used a virtual card!)

My guess of “no objections” is that the girl is experiencing a date, it’s not cool to stand people up.

I would raise such hell at the dealership if anything like this happened to me.

But I prefer my cars with NO INTERNET, no touch screens, and very low tech (easier to fix).

I have local self hosted AI that runs in my solar system. I don’t use AI because it ROTS your brain. We are not the same.

Firefox focus, it’s a browser with only 1 tab and built in Adblock.

I have been using a program called GPT4ALL and you can download many models and run them locally. They give you a prompt at boot if you want to share data or not. I select no and use it offline anyway.

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Just earlier I was reading about this website hosted on solar power and the extremes they went through to get the website to be simple so very little data is transmitted to save precious watts.

The website https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/

But Elon shut off Starlink to Ukraine at the worst time… he can do it to you too.

I was fine with pre-roll ads and mid roll ads. Then YouTube became ultra greedy during Covid when tons of people watching, they went from 1-3 ads per video to 30 ads for a 30 minute video (2 ads every 2 minutes). What the fuck.

I installed adblocker because they did that. YouTube was not watchable at all. Sucks, because I didn’t mind supporting the platform and creator, but their greed ruined that.

That’s my problem, you have to be logged in if you pay and that’s just more data for them to suck up. I watch not logged in. If I want to comment I use a different device.

Relationships are built on trust. Cheating breaks that trust. That trust will never fully come back 100%. There so always be doubt and it will never be the same.