So you used to hang out with your friends

Yes

I called the local HVAC company and they had an AI rep. The thing literally couldn’t even schedule an appointment. I called someone else. They never even called me back so they probably don’t even know they lost my business.

You realized I said “replaced”?

And what does it have to do with smartphones?

You said they make us “more social”. I said they don’t.

You think that “social media” is “antisocial”? Well, then write it as “ban social media”

Also acceptable.

Social media has replaced and ruined real human interaction.

Android Auto is just a projection of the information on your phone so, as far as I know, it’s as private as your phone is.

Of course there’s always the possibility that the vehicle itself is doing a screen capture and processing the information on the display to send back to their servers but…seems unlikely on account of the processing power required for that.

Oh, he is a threat to all types of sovereignty, in every sense.

An official website of the United States government

LOL WTF I’ll never not be blown away by the amount of corruption this guy is able to get away with.

We will be able to but things are very much not trending in that direction. And even if we do it will likely take decades to undo the damage that has been done and will continue to be done for years to come.

“Close your eyes!”

It’s just like COVID Trumpism where he suggested we cure COVID by stopping the testing LOL

but it’s always better to conduct some research than assume you understand how someone uses your app

You can create a community here to conduct research, as aeharding (Voyager) has done.

You’ll probably find a lot of Lemmy users do not use Google accounts and won’t be interested in joining a google group or installing via Play Store. Do you have an alternative method for installation?

The whole article is a good read but this is the important bit:

Instead, the northern state will turn to open-source software to “take back control” over data storage and ensure “digital sovereignty”, its digitalisation minister, Dirk Schroedter, told AFP.

They also blame Trump which is pretty hilarious but probably not terribly relevant to the community.

That’s incorrect. Different sites have different needs and the devs can’t pre-program which of the billion sites need what.

Believe it or not websites don’t work the same way they did “in the old days”. But yes, a lot of it is not needed for many websites. Many of them do require it to function properly though and if devs don’t make it available no one will use them.

All I can say is I’m a regular user and have never seen that. Sorry. These generic errors drive me insane.

I don’t get why people are only blaming the companies doing it and not putting equal blame on browsers for letting it happen

What do you expect browsers to do? They can stop telegraphing some of this information, but then the websites won’t render properly (they use this information to display the website properly), and your fingerprint would just be even more unique.

Pretty much every browser outside of Chrome and Edge have implemented some sort of fingerprinting mitigation techniques.

You’re a vinegar cipher

They are.

Conversations is only available via Play Store and costs $8.