So yeah, I’ve heard it was a good movie too. Like, totally an Oscar worthy performance for sure! ;)

We`re never going to escape it, but I hope it’s not as prevalent as it is on Facebook and twitter etc. Last time I heard anything about the topic regarding those platforms it was some surprisingly unimaginable number of corporate accounts. Like 75%. What I mean by that is people being hired by corporations to join social media platforms and pretend to be legit users interacting with others while pushing agendas, attending to damage control or recommending product.

I totally agree with the title’s sentiment. I don’t mind some free open source rough edges. Lemmy functions great. There’s also a good deal of what looks like genuine interaction. However, I would like to point out that I think there’s a LOT of corporate shills pushing agendas. Some notable ones might be pharmaceutical propaganda and corporate banking with cashless solutions.

Most people are sadly uninformed about what constitutes “money” in our modern society. Here’s a crash course. https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society

Not saying good, bad, right or wrong - We need to understand what this all means. Here’s a good start. https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society

There’s some decent alternatives to Outlook, but not so FOSS. An example might be Mailspring. And if you won’t use Thunderbird then you might need to look at some webmail suites. The best ones to check out are Posteo.de (German), Mailfence.com (Brussels), Protonmail.com (Swiss) and Tuta.com (Germany).

I don’t know why you wouldn’t use Thunderbird. It’s been brilliant for me for years. Some recent updates have improved the aesthetics and included some requested functionality. The Thunderbird team have also been working with K9 to improve the Android app. It’s only going to get better moving forward People are waking up to corporate proprietary abuse and are looking for alternatives. Mozilla are stepping up.

Yep.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

Agreed! What would be amazing though, is a manufacturer who could make a modern safe bare-bones vehicle that didn’t have the tech installed at all. If you want tech you could BYO.

It can’t be illegal because you agree to allow them when you purchase the new vehicle. It’s all there in the T&C and PP, which no one ever reads. Don’t like it? Don’t buy new cars. I won’t.