I mean this whole process is explicitly for the purpose of attaching your identity to your online activities. If you don't want to do it, just don't.
I shudder to think of what will happen when hackers inevitably get into Twitter servers and steal all those IDs though...
It would if it had the necessary firmware. It doesn't support Ad Hoc connections.
Is that like a live action Carmen Sandiego?
I prefer not to "get used to" a super slow service.
Me either bloke
It's not hard to use but definitely doesn't work well, in my experience.
I don't understand what one thing has to do with the other.
No one should voice their concerns with the direction of the instance? Everyone should just be silent because the community is run by volunteers?
It works better only because they intentionally hamstring the browser so you'll do exactly that.
Everyone wants to force you to download their app now so they can collect your data, shove notifications down your throat, and push ads.
In the age of the internet, your attention is the most valuable thing a business can have and it costs them virtually nothing to harass you into giving it to them because people have no spine and won't hold it against them.
I don't have a problem with ads, per se. I don't have a problem with billboards or magazine ads or little league team sponsorships. Hell, I run them myself at a local club.
What I have a problem with is the type of targeted advertising that depends on collecting data about my every click, location, and thought. The type of data that is used to profile me to such a degree that they know more about me than my closest confidants and even than I do about myself. It's just fucking insane. And it's just so wildly profitable that almost every piece of software is doing it.
Is there not a rigid criteria for this sort of thing?
Meta applies a myriad of advanced and complicated tracking methods. Email is a very popular and easy one. I believe the one you're referring to is called a tracking pixel.
For example, some browsers block tracking Pixels, but if you're logged into Amazon with an email address that Meta knows, they will sell your shopping habits to Meta to show you ads.