Hello Andrew, and others, On 10/15/18, Andrew McGlashan via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> wrote:
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Hi,
On 15/10/18 11:51, Trent W. Buck via luv-talk wrote:
Andrew McGlashan via luv-talk wrote:
btw not interested in using Slack either and riot.im -- I wish, but for the same reasons that Signal is a fair base for the normies, so too is FB, just don't over share and be skeptical of any and all stories that are often fake news and other hype that is totally bogus.
So you're not concerned about facebook experimenting on human beings without informed consent?
Sure, but unless you do as Trent said and have no friends or other contacts, then you can give up on FB entirely too.
I do use Gmail, but will not go near Facebook, but I do have friends both in meatspace and online. Their policies as to privacy and data ownership are too focused on their making an obscene profit, they sell too much. Yes a free Gmail account makes me the product, but there are less unethical uses, I am currently using the online version, but the basic HTML view in Firefox ESR on Debian and do not get the adverts, along with an excellent storage and backup that are currently beyond my capabilities.
In any case, whilst I do use FB, I don't use it like the "normies" as Rick puts it. I also use a bunch of other browser add-in features to at least lessen what FB can learn and exploit about myself to a significant but not zero degree.
It is there, that one word, exploit.
Cheers A.
Regards, Mark Trickett