The more they claim they know about you the more they can charge for ads. I have recently realized that Google, Facebook and such are not only powerful because they aggregate data, but rather because they can sell their product (=your attention) to other companies very, very well. People often claim companies would not pay for advertisements had they didn't work — I claim otherwise; they pay for advertisements because Google falsely claims how effective they are and that's why they need to collect your data and be able to show that to their customers to boost their (Google's) sales. In other words they don't do that to sell the customers product well (the one that has been advertised) but rather sell their own product, which is ad space.
Wait, Google Pay still exists? Wasn't it rebranded to Wallet?
In my defence I use Revanced and not Newpipe only because I like to have my subscriptions and watchlist synced up between devices
This is a necessary reminder that Ecosia is a scam:
- they don't "plant trees" but rather contribute very little amounts to existing programmes
- "Every search plants a tree" is a lie. It's not every search, but rather every couple clicks on an ad
- They use Bing results making them useless
If you're using Ecosia with an adblocker or knowingly skip over sponsored results then you are NOT in any way contributing to the tree-planting
you in Chinese is not pronounced like "you" in English. totally different vowel sound
If they have their keyboard set to a different language but type in English anyway, then it learns English words exactly how they're spelled. Which means they probably spelled Window with capital W at some point and then it got autocorrected to that exact spelling.
my username transaltes to "a boring eccentric" btw
: Also I’m not sure why everyone is championing RCS - it’s yet another proprietary communication standard like iMessage and isn’t open thus can’t be easily implemented in other chat apps.
RCS is an implementation of GSMA Universal Profile and is interoperable with it
When I learned balls have a significant role in child-making my first though was women got pregnant by surgically transfering a man's testicle to their belly. Then I realized balls come in two's and I do in fact have more than one sibling
- AdAway -- system-wide ad-blocker, works with and without root, but Adguard DNS work well enough so don't bother if you can't root.
- Aegis -- clean OTP app
- AntennaPod -- best podcast player with lots of customisation
- Breezy Weather (requires IzzyOnDroid repo; fork of the abandoned Geometric Weather) -- brilliant, beautiful, ad-free weather app with Accuweather data
- CloudStream (IzzyOnDroid) -- 🏴☠️ video streaming from all over the web
- Doodle Live Wallpaper -- FOSS recreation of Google's Pixel wallpapers with some extra customisation
- Frost for Facebook -- pretty web wrapper for browsing Facebook
- LibreTorrent -- FOSS, ad-free torrenting app
- OsmAnd+ -- OpenStreetMap client with navigation, offline maps and loads and loads of customisation
- Antimine -- infinite minesweeper game
- Neo Backup -- root-based app data backup
- SimpleAppDowngrader -- root-based, allows downgrading apps without uninstalling and retains data files
- Tasks.org -- best tasklist available, self-hosted but also works with Google Tasks
- ViMusic -- free YouTube Music client, works flawlessly and is very pretty
- Wave Lines Live Wallpaper -- customisable wave lines live wallpaper
nudnyekscentryk
joined 2 years ago
You guys can afford houses?