The EU have made laws regarding the right to be forgotten. If the companies breach this, they face huge fines, as a percentage of their overall earnings. That said, I am loosing faith in how often they get enforced and how easily you can complain to the authorities about it.

Also, i am in doubt of how much data they can actually maintain, while anonymizing it. So they may keep your data, but remove any personal link to you as a person.

I have filed a GDPR complaint about Facebook with my local data authority, because Facebook deleted my account, but still send me newsletters suggesting people to follow. I filed it January 2024 and only after 10 months did the complain get forwarded to Ireland who, because of some new rule, now has to handle the complaint. It will take for ever, but i don’t really care

Yeah, this is one of the companies that I trust to be doing shady stuff. Especially after the Pay or Ok move they did for 1½ year ago, forcing people to either pay a crazy subscription fee to avoid targeted ads, (for me it was close to €30 a month), or accept them. before that, you could opt out of targeted ads (but not tracking).

That said, even when paying a subscription, they would still track you, and still run suggested content, even from commercial accounts.

I feel your pain. I too am considering creating an account simply because it is needed for work and family stuff.

Here you can have a messenger account without having facebook but even that seem to be performing badly, because i dont have facebook. People have trouble finding me and I can’t always join group chats.

I have considered using an old phone just for Facebook and getting an extra phone number to verify the account with. Then only use Facebook through that device and leave it at home. Maybe I’ll have to give Facebook my info but can as well prohibit then from tracking me

I don’t have one I am sorry. We don’t even have chlorine in ours here any more

You can get magnesium tablets. Adding it to tap water could work but we use water for so many other things besides drinking. There i for example no need for it to be in the water that washing machines use, no need to clean the dishes or your floors in magnesium enriched water either…

Interesting… I must check again. I did not seem to find gimp 3 in the software manager

Have you been able to update to Linux 3 though?

But as a rookie (on linux) I am nervous of having to install flatpack… and i don’t know how else to install it. So for now i am sticking with 2,10

It doesn’t sound like you’ve chosen not to swear but that your family has chosen it for you. It actually sounds like you would swear if it wasn’t for your family not wanting you to.

It is depressing to think that this is what you feel makes you unique… any 45+ person is in the same boat as you my friend…

You are special though, but this is not what makes you special.

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Not replying to as many of these types of posts is one of them

The dude was too cheap to buy paint and brushes, to do what he loves. It kind of is a comical tragedy

Let me blow your mind a bit more…

https://youtu.be/OrwBc6PwAcY?si=_mIdhgm5QM7oonXf

USA 1970s

You are welcome! You may visit the danish instance at feddit.dk

Just as Denmark, it is not very large but plenty of people willing to help, mixed with some degree of Danish sarcasm

Even better, make a list of the ads you see, and activelly avoid buying the products or services that they promote.

I don’t think this is true.

I agree that nobody can be neutral, but reporting news should at least try to be. It is basically just telling facts about what is going on in the world. I understand that being totally objective is not possible, but not trying, and reporting facts with an agenda is not a news source that I would take seriously

I know that it is not possible, but actively having an orientation just makes for bad journalism. Reporting on news from both sides, and not sensationalizing news or the way they are reported, should be key factors of any good source of news