Re: Monkeys ,O'O'O'O,

Monkeys are incredible !

[email protected] kirjutas Esmaspäev, 18. november 2019 kl 13:09:00 UTC+2:
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> I'm cyberbullied by mega corporations. (Score:-1) 
> by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18, 2019 @04:08AM (#59425354) 
> In the year 1999, you went to a site, clicked "register", filled in basic info, and then you had an account. No CAPTCHAs. No e-mail verification in most cases. Absolutely no "phone verification". No fake error messages based on your IP address/"reputation score". No underhanded "oh, wait, you cannot have the account after all" messages after you've already registered. No evil "shadowbans"/bubbles. No photo IDs had to be scanned in and sent to the owners of the site. Nothing like that whatsoever. Those days are long gone... 
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> * There are only two web browsers left: Chrome and Firefox. (All the other ones are just "skins".) The latter has virtually no marketshare, yet is almost as bad as the former. Both ship with keyloggers enabled by default, not mentioned to the user in any way, which immediately send every single keystroke you input into either the address or search bars (part of the UI) to evil corporations to store, analyze and use against you perpetually. Anything you paste accidentally into the same fields also flies straight to Google/Mozilla/"partners". Never use those bars as "scratch pads". And this is just the tip of the iceberg; there isn't enough room here to go into details about all the other gross privacy violations that they do by default, without your knowledge or consent... 
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> * When logging into GitHub one day (2019), after discovering that my issues all returned "404 Not found" errors, and after being forced to enter a code sent via e-mail: "Your account has been flagged. Because of that, your profile is hidden from the public." When you see that message, nobody will ever hear or see you on that site ever again... 
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> * Everything is an "app" these days. Even when you go to the website of something, it's often only there to serve as a way for people who carry around surveillance devices (called "mobile phones", "mobiles" or "phones" in newspeak) to click (sorry -- tap) on special links which open up their centralized "app stores" and download the malware/spyware for them, which then have unfettered access to their entire system. No "website interface" is available to use with a "real" computer. 
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> * My ancient Hotmail e-mail account, created in the late 1990s and mostly kept around for nostalgic reasons, has not allowed me to log into it for ages. It's frozen at the "verify with phone" screen, which is impossible to get past. The account was like 15 years old when they suddenly decided they need to "verify" it "for my protection", forever locking me out from it. 
> . 
> * On Whitepages (.com), no matter what absurd, obviously fake and impossible names you enter, it will always say: "We found Slasdotexamplefakename on Whitepages Premium", in an attempt to trick you into paying them money because the "person" you were looking for supposedly exists behind their paywall. This scam is somehow allowed to keep operating, just like countless other major/semi-governmental sites which get away with absolutely anything. I've pointed this "bug" out to the owners multiple times but they of course just ignore my e-mails. 
> . 
> * The fraudsters at Stripe made me waste countless months learning and implementing their massive API only to one day, out of the blue as I was asking them a technical question, tell me something along the lines of: "Unfortunately, we won't be able to provide services for you going forward." Naturally, I asked them what they meant, but (as always is the case with these companies) they just did not reply at all. My only guess is that it had something to do with me also allowing Bitcoin payments for the service I was building, and this was considered a "risk" to them, or something. I had zero complaints/conflicts for any of the charges I had made in the past through them, so it was definitely not due to some actual abuse by me or my account. At any given moment, they can just cut you off without telling you why, and then you're forever unable to charge people money online in practice. (All of their competitors are even more sketchy and virtually nobody uses Bitcoin, sadly.) 
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> * There's constant buffering, stuttering and freezing for video streaming, and oftentimes even for Internet radio. No matter which site. Words cannot describe how frustrating it is to have 100/100 Mb/s fiber which can never actually be utilized because everything has to go through these sluggish, shady, crappy VPNs and proxies. (And even then, they don't actually give any real privacy or security...) 
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> * Half the time, those Google reCAPTCHA puzzles never end. They just keep showing more and more new stupid "puzzles" for me to sit there like a monkey and click, click and click until the end of time or I eventually give up, kill the tab and forget about doing any of the basic tasks that no longer can be done in the dystopian surveillance nightmare that the Internet has turned into. 
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> My conclusion: privacy is no longer "a thing" in the minds of the average person. 
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> PS: I must say that I'm genuinely fascinated by the morons (likely the same mentally ill guy with sockpuppet accounts) who reply to my posts suggesting that "I don't know what I'm doing". This means that they didn't read the contents. They logically couldn't have. Yet they reply to it. What? I see this all the time in other contexts as well; a lot of dumb people appear to have the urge to reply to things that they haven't read... which means no sense at all. Or is it that they do read but don't comprehend the meaning? It seems impossible for them to not understand since I write so clearly and explain that all of the things mentioned are out of my control, yet in their narrow minds, it's still somehow "my fault" what others are doing? Absolutely baffling. 
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