You're just asking if it's okay for you to be in a professional group chat with other professionals? Yes. What's your follow up question?

I mean, how else are you going to do a speed test?

Hi, try Linux Mint.

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What is it?

Hey, it doesn't look obfuscated to me?

Got frustrated trying to sign up for Lemmy.

Dropout.tv!

Because I don't want to go outside.

Hope you charged them double.

I fly jetBlue or Southwest; no Delta for me.

While I'm on the ad-blocking, alternative-browser-using side of the divide, I don't really think it's just two distinct experiences. It's a whole range. I'm not going to disable JavaScript; it's useful. I'm not going to never make accounts. I'm not going to eschew online ordering. Privacy and security are always a spectrum; it's not binary.