Somewhat relevant xkcd

I love to tell you, but I am aware of all that, which is why I’m happy to report that I followed your advice before getting it.

I’m efficient like that 😁

…banana? Who told you about my secret experiments?! haha how delightfully random!

Unlike the shysters at Raw Story, I never said that it’s important. Hence why it fits the “mildly” part of the community name.

I was just curious about the results before I realized what they were trying to do and then annoyed by their bullshit.

Malware is any unwanted thing on your computer that either you or your system has to deal with, whether in the form of software, emails, or pop-ups.

Besides, they won’t just give you spam in the form of emails. They’ll also give you advertising cookies.

Also, the tracking beacons only load if you let it. I assume you have your email client set to not load remote content. (If you don’t, you really should.) not sure what you use for email, but thunderbird (mozilla) does it automatically.

That’s besides the point. I use Proton Mail and a lot of Firefox privacy and adblock extensions to guard against this sort of thing, but I shouldn’t have to.

Not everyone is as savvy and aware and at least once a week, I have to use the computer of my mom who is the type who just says yes to everything and trusts that they’d never do anything too bad even though she’s giving them carte blanche to do so.

And yes, I’ve suggested that my mom switches away from gmail and Edge to Firefox and Proton or another better free email provider and offered to handle it and installing the extensions for her, but she won’t hear of it.

Spam IS a form of malware. Besides, if you think they aren’t going to also send a ton of tracking cookies to spy on you and sell your data, you’re being extremely naive…

Officially, but it hasn’t really been Skype for at least a decade and a half…

It used to be really good, but then Microsoft bought it and almost immediately ruined it.

Dunno, I’m just a humble cross poster who hasn’t for a decade plus change 🤷

Guess all those SEO pranks came back to bite you in the ass, huh?

Yeah, except this is what I get when trying to search for anything on DDG right now:

Yeah, I was already in my late teens when I got my first phone, so I have no doubt you benefitted from learning young compared to me lol

Or, even better, an off-brand Discman 😄

I had absolutely no trouble until a slight delay on the iPod but had to give up a little later as my elder millennial ass forgot how to type on an old school Nokia 😄

It isn’t. His reaction of banning me for saying something factual that he doesn’t like might qualify as an extremely mild version, though 😄

McCarthyism was the Second Red Scare philosophy of “everything to the left of hunting the homeless for sport is communism and communism is the most dangerous thing in the history of the world” taught by senator Joe McCarthy and other closet fascists.

It was used as an excuse to hunt down and blacklist anyone they didn’t like, whether they were left wing, Jewish, worked in Hollywood or, sweet merciful Anglo Saxon God more than one of the above.

The irony of him invoking that while unfairly punishing me for not following the local groupthink isn’t lost on me, though I’m sure it is on him 😄

This one: https://lemmy.world/comment/9266324

this isn’t “Goldmember”. Should I arbitrarily hate other countries for shits and giggles?

Absolutely not, I didn’t mean to imply approval, merely to make fun of bad mods by ascribing bigotry to them 😉

And who says I’m even Dutch? Maybe I’m like Kirk and I only work in The Netherlands

True, but anyone unreasonable enough to be bigoted towards the Dutch probably don’t care about such distinctions 🤷

they seem to love to hate on Apple there

That’s the only thing they’re right about, though. They shouldn’t have banned you for your comment, especially not if it’s true, but Apple DOES suck in nearly every way possible 🤷

On some instances, opinions other than the admins need not apply.

Yeah, I’ve noticed lol

Hopefully you’re not suggesting as much, even with the digs at the Dutch

For the record, I’m a big fan of the Dutch in general 😄

Belgians I can take or leave, though…except on second thought they make some truly wonderful beer so they can stay 😁😉