Asking the person who purports to be an expert on the situation to provide some context is much faster than someone who knows nothing about it, like myself, trying to find it.

Source?

Having an iPhone in my age and country is a kind of privilege, i can’t forget how my high school classmates looked at me while holding it

Peak teenager right here.

And yet, if you look them up you’ll find many of them have tens of millions of downloads. It’s crazy the types of random shit people thoughtlessly download from the Play Store. The North Korean spy agency also had spyware apps on there until recently, targeting South Korean users.

It is, yes. After certain system updates these apps can sometimes be reinstalled/reactivated without the user’s knowledge. Samsung is notorious for this.

Privacy isn’t necessarily about risk for everyone. For some it’s more about their individual right to privacy, and to uphold that right they need to be aware of ways in which it may be breached. So this is probably not practical information for most people (I certainly don’t care) but it’s useful to share nonetheless.

Man who didn’t read the article he shared tells those who did read it that they “need to work on their reading comprehension”. You’re so stupid you’re actually writing satirical headlines about yourself now. Except, unfortunately for you, it’s not satire because you really just typed that out. Wow.

ignoring the fact that pewdiepie is a racist

This is a satirical article mocking the backlash to the things he actually did.

This isn’t about my misremembering a really good satire bit as fact because it was so close to true.

At press time, PewDiePie was once again under fire for an incident in a new PUBG stream where, after getting run over by a vehicle, he accidentally left his house, booked a flight to Kentucky, stayed in a hotel for three days, and joined a Civil War reenactment fighting as a Confederate soldier.

???

Yes, I do have a problem with braindead retards who mindlessly recycle fake news that fits their narrative instead of taking a minute out of their life to actually read the shit they are sharing. You guys shit up the online discourse for everyone else, it’s this exact kind of moronic behaviour that makes social media such a chore these days. If you can’t be bothered to put the minimum amount of effort in, please just stay off the internet.

The most concerning thing is you seem to think it’s some kind of minor error that you can instantly move on from, but in reality the only way you make this kind of insanely stupid mistake is if you have something fundamentally wrong with your approach to sourcing information. Instead of trying to baselessly claim I’m a white supremacist for calling you out, maybe switch off the screen and do some thinking about why the fuck you throught an obviously satirical article was a genuine event that occurred in real life.

It would have become immediately obvious if you’d actually bothered to spend 1 minute reading the link you’d shared.

Is this part of some elaborate troll? This is a satirical article mocking the backlash to the things he actually did.

The Proton CEO thing was vastly overblown. He is a privacy advocate and expressed support for Trump’s appointment for head of antitrust, as well as criticism of corporate Democrats who stand for big business which was misrepresented as a love of the Republican Party. The only mistake he made was to publish those statements using the official Proton account, which he later apologised for.

Some people, especially the American left, love to virtue signal and predictably they tried to cancel Proton as a result of this pretty minor and irrelevant social media drama. There were some good write-ups at the time which exposed how counterfactual the “pRoToN lOvEs mAgA” arguments were, but I guess feel free to skip over Proton if it really concerns you. It is objectively one of the best choices if you value both privacy and functionality (Proton still has support for port forwarding), which I think are far more relevant areas to be looking at when choosing a VPN for piracy.

I can’t keep up with all the various instance wars/feuds but they are amusing nonetheless.

and accusations of everyone being a communist / not communist / slightly communist / whatever else seems to get thrown around on Lemmy.

So true lol