There's at least one public story from an ex-googler who worked on search having a big QoL feature update killed at the absolute last moment before it went live by someone in marketing/ads because it decreased click through rate for the "sponsored" results at the top of the search page.
wizardbeard
joined 1 year ago
Not 100% of the time. My job is pretty much "I'm building what we need to do it the better way, you have X months to get ready. If you have objections talk with my manager. He can get legal or information security to tell you that you aren't special enough to get an exception."
Shitty people love indoctrinating children.
Religion, much like many idealogical groups, gives an easy place for assholes to find confirmation of their own shit ideas, and a shield of "righteousness" and "I'm doing it for their own good" to hide behind lest the dying gasps of their withered conscience interrupt them.
There's plenty of secular belief systems along these lines as well. Many racist groups like skinheads, neonazis, and the KKK spread through indoctrination of children (parents passing beliefs to children) and appeals to young people as "the solution" for the confusion and isolation they feel growing up.
I'm Christian, I feel that the ten commandments are some of the best secular life advice the bible has to offer, and this mess is complete and utter unmitigated bullshit.
No if ands or buts, whoever was involved in this clown show of a law deserves to be instantly stripped of any governmental or education system titles or powers and banned from holding any position of power for life.
Any religion, belief system, or idealogical concept worth anything should be capable of standing up on it's own.
You can pirate, or if you want to do it the "right" way, you can sign up when there's something you want to watch and cancel when there isn't.
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me
Bleachbit is the open source, non trash "replacement" for CCleaner
Musicbee is a pretty good Foobar alternative.
Solo IT/Dev? I'm so sorry.
If I remember right, Noice started offering paid subscriptions to stream higher quality sound files from a central server. I just rolled back my install to the last version before that change (looks like 2.5.6) and disabled updating.
I'll have to check out soothing noise player!
You're better off rotating usernames on a semi-randomized schedule if it really matters to you that much. Is your personal threat model such that you actually need to be concerned about this?
Anyway, OpSec rather than asking others to fix your privacy concerns would be the way to go.
Create separate accounts by topic, with different fake identity details beyond what you made them for. Keep track of each identity's fake time zone when planning when you post so that no one can figure out what time zone you really are posting from.
Beyond that decide on a lifetime (and "cooloff period" before you make a replacement) for each account using a random number generator.
Most importantly, use various AI tools to obsfucate your typing style and word choice.
This all seems like a shit ton of work to just talk about your hobbies. I sincerely hope you don't have stalkers this dedicated.
There's at least one public story from an ex-googler who worked on search having a big QoL feature update killed at the absolute last moment before it went live by someone in marketing/ads because it decreased click through rate for the "sponsored" results at the top of the search page.