My buddy works IT for a company and that 20% chance is one he encountered just last week!!

Fake it till you make it! (งツ)ว

It’s like sushi… kinda

I think there’s a couple things at play:

• You know enough to find a different app and make it do what you need it to. Not a hard thing, but something many non-tech savvy people could struggle with, or more likely–

• People often will just use what’s there. We know we have options, we are aware of the privacy concerns… but many people simply aren’t and/or don’t care enough to do anything about it.

We spend a lot of time here, so it seems to us like second nature to avoid intrusive apps… I find in my day-to-day life not many people are talking about that kind of stuff, or don’t have much knowledge/experience in that realm. (I realize that is anecdotal).

I 100% agree with your statements–just trying to rationalize how so many people end up using/staying with these ever-worsening services/apps…

You wouldn’t download an island…?!

They don’t mince words, that’s for sure! They apparently don’t have any solutions for you. I think they just wanted to make that clear, probably so you didn’t get the wrong idea about them.

You read my mind 👏

I take back my chuckle

For real! I was like, “oh, they probably got some emails and calls that were a bit abrasive”

Wow, was I wrong!! Not only are these executives some real snowflakes, but they’re also psychopaths. Shit, i hope they don’t read this message, lest a fetal pig be delivered to my door 👀

I like to pronounce it West-el-ey. Gotta make that ‘t’ count!

It’s one em fourchangs

Wow, that seems particularly odd to me. People don’t want their parents to know where they live? Sounds like they had a rough childhood more than a penchant for extreme privacy, but wtf do i know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is to the point where there are YouTube videos where people cut away little bits of space between sentences just so there isn’t even a second of calm

Omg, i really, really don’t like that. It took a little while before i began noticing it but now i can’t ignore it anytime it’s happening. I simply won’t watch those videos because i won’t be able to focus for very long. It can be especially jarring how they’ll cut from one sentence into the next one and the editing makes it seem like their head glitched into another spot. I won’t follow any YouTubers that do this stuff, I’ll find something else to watch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯