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Google will make you wave at your computer to check you are real
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Man the internet is so fucked now.
Honestly I find myself going more and more old school. Thrift stores, Craigslist, garage sales since the dominant platform here requires a 360 degree set of pictures of your head for verification just to create an account.
More and more I get stonewalled by bullshit like this and I just close the tab in frustration and go elsewhere.
Same with news sites. Scroll down an inch and they paywall you. Well, I already have a shirt attention span. Tab closed.
I hope its not a few that are like me but that a majority will soon start behaving this way.
Big tech is so bad now. All about data collection and monitoring you while making your experience of their product worse over time. Fuck that.
What's worse is those fucking people that throw up the "I have nothing to hide" argument.
You should. You deserve privacy. Everyone who wants your information just wants to use it to manipulate you. Wake up.
Maybe it's a sign that it's time to go outside and touch grass.
Internet has peaked and is now in decline. Glad I got to experience its golden age.
At least we got the OG black vault, hamsterdance,irc, and a full set of fan pages for everything out there
I miss the late 90s
Is everyone still using freenode? Or are there other irc servers now
Yup. Definitely. But it still has its reach. I like going for bike rides and listening to audio books. Good luck doing that without being tracked all over. I mean you can, but so much less convenient.
Cool. Now please tell me how to fix this:
I need a job. I desperately need a job. I have very little time left until I'll have to leave the country I called home for 5 years because I can't get a job.
Suddenly all job sites start talking about "suspicious behavior on my account" and block it. But no worries, all I have to do is send them a picture of my passport, videos of my face and my first born, and I'm in business baby!
So what the fuck a.m I supposed to do?
I mean, of course you are completely right, and I too love thrifting and hard sales and and... I still need a job
How the fuck is any of this legal? Why do our politicians sell themselves to the highest bidder to allow these creeps to take everything from us?
I feel you. I was laid off recently but I was also moonlighting so I just transitioned that to my main job. Its a tough market out there right now, I wouldn't be surprised if we see a recession soon, if we're not already in one.