Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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Curry Teafag said:
To be fair, they do not want to comply with EU law because it is very pro-consumer and protects our civil rights against very large online platforms and not just government entities
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Aside that it falls apart when you consider the people who ostensibly uphold the laws are literally retarded Globalists and Jeets.

mango_reseller said:
At the same time, the EU wants to assert control over what its citizens consume and drive the narrative, in a way that the US, either due to confidence, or due to it having a leader role in the opinion-shaping ecosystem, or whatever, simply does not. I am worried that the US will eventually come for anonymity and VPNs, but as long as most of the US population (and the world population) uses Meta, Apple, Google etc, it doesn't "have" to attack VPNs (under the CLOUD act, the US can just request any US company for any data for anyone outside the US using US services no harm no foul).
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They don't need to attack VPNs because all of the Big Tech that have made themselves mandatory for Internet use will do it for you.

Just not being able to use Youtube without offering your personal ID and/or driver's license ALONE changes everything.
 
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Do Not Touch Me Pls said:
Just not being able to use Youtube without offering your personal ID and/or driver's license ALONE changes everything.
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Surely you understand the nuance of just not using YouTube versus being forced by the government to upload your ID to be able to use the Internet at all.
Thankfully, for the latter, the 1A most likely protects everyone in the US.
 
mango_reseller said:
Surely you understand the nuance of just not using YouTube versus being forced by the government to upload your ID to be able to use the Internet at all.
Thankfully, for the latter, the 1A most likely protects everyone in the US.
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Yes, I understand the ramification.

But just even one social media giant requiring you to submit your personal ID to use it alone is more than enough to be catastrophic and chances are it's likely not just one, but all of them by that point. It's also much easier to do and effectively bypasses law on any local level.

And this is likely what Globalhomo is going for.
 
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Do Not Touch Me Pls said:
But just even one social media giant requiring you to submit your personal ID to use it alone is more than enough to be catastrophic and chances are it's likely not just one, but all of them by that point. It's also much easier to do and effectively bypasses law on any local level.
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I do not believe that social media wants to also handle your IDs themselves. It opens them up to litigation when they eventually get hacked. They would really like to have your ID information, of course, because they can serve you more targetted ads, but they would rather someone else be responsible for providing and storing it (i.e. the OS in this case).

But then, it's not clear to me that needing to submit an ID (effectively) to use an OS is legal in the US. We'll see what happens. I'm currently worried about other proposals that I can't really discuss without instantly doxxing myself, but suffice it to say there's worse things that can happen.
 
What grinds my gears? Every damn place that you need to order food through seemed to require a login or app. A few local places let you order food as a guest. But those places now require you sign up to an app that will just leak your information due to shitty security.
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
What grinds my gears? Every damn place that you need to order food through seemed to require a login or app. A few local places let you order food as a guest. But those places now require you sign up to an app that will just leak your information due to shitty security.
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I often grab a coffee from McDonald's when I am on the road. Over the past few months "Do you use the App?" FFS I am ordering a Coffee from the Golden Arches, does this activity really need to be tracked by corporate?

McDonald's prints money, why do they need all this bullshit?
 
mango_reseller said:
I do not believe that social media wants to also handle your IDs themselves.
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Once you hand your personal identification over to any of these sites your data is given over to a harvesting company. It doesn't really matter at this point if it's a dating website, online auctions, or social media, or anything else. "Big data" is there more for the surveillance state than any direct marketing. This lie of "they just want to advertise better products to you" still fools many people.
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
What grinds my gears? Every damn place that you need to order food through seemed to require a login or app. A few local places let you order food as a guest. But those places now require you sign up to an app that will just leak your information due to shitty security.
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Because you are the product more than anything else being bought or sold. Your personal data is more important to them than being an anonymous customer. They will lose sales on anonymity because the priority is getting access to your personal identification. On the outside they might look like a restaurant or grocery store or gas station or movie streaming site but in reality they are a data harvesting company first and foremost.
 
There is an unimaginable amount of fraud coming from the 'global south' sometimes within the same borders of the country it is happening in from VPN's to importing the entire village of scammers by the 'anchors'. That's why the need to ID you some way and why there is a '15 minute timeout' or less, 3FA or whatever the future holds. As soon as the jeet resets your account he copies and pastes to another window to leak the information. These people hate you and will do everything to take anything they can from you no matter how small or insignificant. Deport, sink the boats mid-crossing and cut the undersea cables.
 
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