This is too funny. What a great post to wake up to lmfao.

People: AI will take over the world Meanwhile, AI:

You're seriously gonna believe a "trust me bro" from big tech?

Yes, it is. I mean, GrapheneOS is the gold standard for privacy&security, but even stock Pixel is a good step up. Think of it like this: on stock Pixel, only Google is tracking you, not Google + Samsung, or Google + Xiaomi. Just Google. It's guaranteed to be a step up from all other Android phones, stock or not.

Boy do I wish the same thing would happen to Meta.

I live in a country in that South China Sea region and I hope mainland China magically disappears or something.

Use small instances. I've never had trouble on lemdro.id.

But....why?

Such a good VPN for a really good price. I'll definitely be renewing when the time comes.

Down again it seems. People seriously need to switch away from lemmy.world. Every single time it goes down so much content goes down with it. It's annoying.

Man the modern internet is a privacy nightmare.

I'm also a huge believer in open source. I'm using Infinity for Lemmy right now but I gladly paid for the ad removal in Sync. It genuinely is the best Lemmy app out right now. It just works and has so many customization options. Not to mention, since Sync uses Google for ads, when you remove the ads, the ad component isnt initialized so you remove the tracking. So nothing to worry about there either. 20$ lifetime for such an awesome app is totally fair for me. That's my opinion, you are free to disagree.