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Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If they're not willing to do something as simple as install an app to talk to you, then they were not likely very good friends to begin with (imo).

This argument is very susceptible to Uno reverso 😅

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Sure, and there you just have to weigh:

  • Your relationship with that person vs
  • Your desire to have a right to privacy and not participate in a system which weaponizes social media to generate political outcomes favorable to the billionaire owners of those services (ex:, as the stories today show, disallowing saying the word Epstein or Zionist on TikTok).

I know that isn't an easy decision and generally I value my relationships more than fighting The Man. I've just been lucky enough that my social circle are all other tech people who have been privacy-aware since the beginning. I do keep an iPad to talk to family, but it is not associated with any other account that I use.