No no no u, the person who downvoted you deals only in figuritwatts.

Always used to amaze me as a kid I had to pay 20p to inflate my bike tyre from, air.

Boggled my mind since I had a hand pump.

Southport was a tinderbox, but the current trends if you’re actually from the UK shows that there’s a bonfire incoming.

You only have to watch a couple of YouTube live streams…wait. Tomorrow I wait for age gating to see if Google is that…nefarious in stopping me watching YTP vids without a passport.

Ima gonna giggle

I wanna see if YouTube is that stupid they send my 18+ year old YT account an age verification check. April 2007 feels like a long time ago…

Dumping YT / gMaps / Google SSO etc and replacing them bit by bit is a hard vice to break, but I’ve got others using self hosted shit now (yay Immich and Jellyseerr arr…) and I’ll keep on doing it for others too.

I’ll always remember my favourite survey

Made me giggle that one, totally apt for a lad from Bradford :D

You got me curious, because while I don’t have the app installed for the longest time I do have a female fam member who used to demolish me in rewards and still uses it.

But, only blocks adverts at (yay Adguard)home while on WiFi and pretty sure she doesn’t have PrivateDNS enabled.

Seems she’s only getting surveys whilst out and about shopping so I’ve asked her to enable her exit node at home next time shopping.

For science…

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cc: @bountygiver@lemmy.ml

edit: goddamn formatting via Boost is nuts 🙈

This, and something to note is never lie to Google Rewards as you’ll then stop getting surveys altogether if they catch you out with their trap questions

Have you ever visited XYZ waterpark

If you haven’t, even if it’s a real place just say no and wait for the next survey because they’ll trip you up trying.

Ah there we go, same old shit

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If you visit via old.reddit you can dismiss the modals to sign into the app or your account.

Reddit account?

Pretty old since I haven’t nuked it yet, but I’m not even signed in above as you can see from the above screenshot

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I should really login sometime to see if I have lots of threats from mister greedy Spez piggy again, but the headline here doesn’t match up to me trying it in the UK rn.

…tests for science

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No we don’t?

Alas, old.reddit wankers ahoy

Mine’s having the lazy arse syndrome of using it to sign in to Tailscale and having other friends/family using their SSO from the Big G to simplify them signing into my Tailnet.

Guilty as charged?

I used to help out in r/Botdefense

The amount of them was ridiculous and only because the makers made another bot to report them to us (with stats), could we even keep up. That was before greedy piggy spez shut down API access and now? Ewww

It does when you’re sharing nationally classified information with what is a third party, not sanctioned by the administration itself?

The headquarters are irrelevant.

Is it?

Is that why people trying to protect their privacy use VPN’s/DNS resolvers outside of the US jurisdiction such as Mullvad/Quad9 etc?

And as stated by someone else if you’re using a personal device with a phone number to share classified information outside of a SCIF, you’ve got to ask yourself if there’s a modicum of “sensibility” in the administration here.

It’s like someone else said - I went back and dug a little on old.reddit (RIP r/America) and there’s for some reason its “not being shared” and actually, neutered?

Maybe I’m just a sucker for popcorn but it smells like it shit, it usually is 💩

It is absolutely insane, considering they have SCIF devices / rooms but also the option of “not using off the shelf” shit like Signal and using a phone number. But here they are.

Hell, they could even use something like Briar / Matrix / whatever that is decentralised/does not require a phone number unlike Signal but instead they sent emotes, and classified information detrimental to US citizens over a centralised (third party) platform. Literally, insane.

Are we missing an /s here? Signal is headquartered in the US, and here’s me pondering if they were actually using Telegram instead. Which would’ve been pretty apt.

I think at this point I’d be better off trying to use WeChat…

edit: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger - archive

For a bit of clarity some are not seeing. Google, sanctioned too. Crazy times.

To be fair, it’s running at the top of BBC news here in the UK this morning which is kinda weird. They usually dunk stuff like this unless they too have some angle on it.

Pray tell, how do you “pirate” a SSO service as you alluded to above?

No one asked for alternatives. We’re more interested in how you’re gonna “pirate” these things. Cheers!

Exactly, you tell me since I’m just giving you examples of US hosted services as you asked for.

Personally you could self host all three, but it would be a fairly expensive endeavour and you’d be operating on a brand new platform with no users.