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Apparently YouTube tracks us like mad. They gague interest by length of watch and do loads of geo location... (insert sad face)

DuckDuckGo allows you to watch through them and it proxies it. (I don’t really understand but I’m learning) gives you choices to watch via them, with far less tracking
#privacy

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Much Larger and Chunkier Than We Thought
A new study shows the patch is not just microplastics. Fishing gear and large pieces make up 92 percent of the trash

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Today's lesson: Medium is bad. They've suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories for bogus reasons and with only 12 hours notice.

What you should not forget is that: public posts are public, private posts may still be public if sent to dishonest servers, DMs are not protected by encryption and rely on both involved instance's honesty.
If you allow everyone to follow you your data may get mined just as on the commercial platforms.
If you have a commercial bot (in disguise) in your followers, it will see and mine those toots.
Just being a federation is no silver bullet to the privacy issue. But ou aren't the product anymore.

@saturno Data belongs to the individual who generates it.

Data should not be under control of a few private companies.

"El éxito es cagarla en tus propios términos."

―Guillermo del Toro. (2018)

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Vargas Llosa pasará a la historia como un vendido a los intereses yanquis.

Millions of women demonstrated today in Spain. Very impressive images. There is hope, it's in the streets.

as a merchandise. People monetizing from our revolt. It happens a lot online. Lot of fake revolutionaries populate the internet. And I can tell you, when they have a pretty face, they make good money.

Happy international women's day to all revolutionary women. To the workers, to the warriors!

Hoy se cumplen 240 años del natalicio de José de San Martín 🇦🇷