Ya i mean i’ve been off social media and youtube for years and still get targeted advertising until i started using proactive privacy measures. So i would not bet against you.

I think you’re probably right too. A lot of this shit sounds scary but as we can see, these tech overlords are exceptionally well-funded but equally delusional about what they can accomplish.

Fuck these people

Agreed, I’ve always followed the rule of if i’m gonna say anything, pretend everyone i know is in the same room, would I still say that thing and be proud of it?

Honestly the more of us who are generally sane ppl who contribute to society they fuck with, the better because it just makes them look rediculous.

That said, if I’m about to get punched in the face, I’d prefer to know if its coming so I can prepare.

it’s tough because we need to get the word out to people to advertise events like No kings and share info on ICE, most ppl don’t have the time between working 3 jobs and raising kids to properly research open source options. Those of us who know better have to reach out to those who don’t using their medium.

I always use VPN at bare minimum so I’m not personally worried but I know a lot of ppl who are more into activism than tech privacy who I wanna keep informed.

I only have a need for RAG and it works well, wouldn’t say I need w copilot either. Everyone probably has some use case for this stuff but it’s gonna be different for everyone, the basic llm conversation model it’s really just a stepped up interactive Google

Off with their heads! GO self-hosted, go local… toss the rest in the trash can before this crap gets a foothold and fully enshitifies

Wow, so utter incompetence and petty infighting then?