If you are saying that perhaps the ongoing "healthy at any size" and body positivity advocates may be a part of the problem, I think that you are correct. Over my years, I have noticed that there was a social shift at some point and it feels like nowadays we almost glorify obesity and shame folks that are in shape.

Google has become one of the worst companies on the internet, and the worst *for* the internet and I'm worried about how much farther they will sink.

They're an advertising company that wants to *be* the internet, via Android & Chrome/etc.

There are few values to Chrome. It is simply a vehicle which Google has driven to enshit-ify the internet even further.

I'm 100% for this, as long as it works. The fact that shitty companies like Spokeo (or whoever) require you to register with them just so you can hope they delete the information they've collected on you is ridiculous. I work in a job field (healthcare) where some privacy is important because people really are batshit crazy and absolutely will stalk others. Having to try to figure out which website is selling my home address and personal contact information today shouldn't be this damn difficult, but here we are.

Microsoft had their change with Skype to integrate it into the Xbox Live world, add a camera, and absolutely dominate the space that we thought that FaceTime was going to rule.

They seemed *so close* but never quite got across the finish line with Skype. Now with so many other apps making data calls, it seems almost pointless., which is sad.

> Sure, but even if that's true, that just means using Android is cutting out toxic people. Win/win.

It's true, but it's the opposite. The Android users tend to be *the* most toxic ones out there.

Obnoxious Android zealots are like the old Windows NT snobs.

Careful when doing that, anybody stupid enough to still be using SORBS to the rules that the SORBS assholes have decided are best for the internet will ding you for that. Low TTL = spammer to them.

SORBS should have fucked off and died ages ago but it's still around, unfortunately.

The bigger problem are the 600lb gorillas like Google and Gmail, who *might* bless you with Inbox deliverability to gmail customers.

Google has scooped up an absolutely massive amount of email traffic over the years, unfortunately.

At least with providers like MSN/Hotmail/etc you can request an IP whitelist. Google has no such friendliness and you just have to send emails to gmail friends and have them go in and mark "not spam." It's frustrating and was a huge huge problem for me when I had to move to a new IP.

I remember that useless map, and the fact that for some bizarre reason it didn't list locally owner grocers or mini-marts. It showed vast swaths of north Texas as a "food desert" despite there being like 7 grocery stores in Denton alone.

This map seems equally brain dead.

This should end well for someone. somehow. maybe.

at this point, I think it should be perfectly legal to find these kids and execute them in public. They've caused untold damage to hospitals and businesses already.

Find them. Destroy them once and for all. Yes, I think a huge public spectacle needs to be made of them.

I would not be at all surprised to see them pull the plug on it within a year and try to rebrand it as YouTube Arcade or something. None of us can trust that a Google property is going to be around much, aside from what scores them advertising revenue.

I'd ask perfect for whom? That sounds like a perfect echo chamber, which while pleasing to the ear is not healthy. Imagine as a thought experiment a teacher that only ever gave lessons that pleased their pupils. I'd still be playing with the giant wooden blocks from Kindergarten... I wonder if Amazon sells those... I'll be... NO CARRIER

> I'm sorry to disappoint you Edward, but nothing's changed.

I have to respectfully disagree - setting aside any personal political views on Mr Snowden, as someone who's been inside infosec for years, encryption has become a Thing in the wake of the disclosures. Consider a project to encrypt all the data flows INSIDE your datacenter. Prior to the Snowden leaks, that's have been a non-starter in most large firms: "Dear Board of Directors, please approve this multimillion dollar project that provides no user-visible benefits, is only really advocated by a few cypto-geeks and is only hypothetically going to protect us from some un-proven risks - Signed the tinfoil hat brigade"

Now if you're selling serious product to a listed publicly traded company, encryption WILL be on the list of questions their security department will be asking you prior to signing off on the purchase. Let's Encrypt is a thing now. Hell even the Feds want your internal data center network to be fully encrypted for Fedramp certification.

Remember the conversations about Zoom e2e encryption? Thank Snowden for those.

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They're going after Pornhub/mindgeek using the newfound interest in "stop sex trafficking/save the children" because their main goal is to get Section 230 revoked.

That's their goal. This is just a convenient scapegoat.