vmachiel

Preach. Strong passwords, MFA and awareness of social engineering is the bulk of security on the user side.

Seeing it with a forward slash is just weird.

Saving some money short term, losing a whole bunch long term.

Same reason moms play solitaire on their phones. Just something they know to pass the time, no need for anything fancy or new.

Well: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/

Edit: it’s more loot box stuff.. but it’s step one

Great point, this will happen instantly.

It’s actually optimized for them. The goal is to get users to spend time and see ads etc. The UI is not made for us users.

Devils advocate here: it’s their webservice right? They determine who can access it.

If there were legislation that would force them to make it interoperable that would be one thing. But you can’t just demand access to their infrastructure.

This is fine imo. If you don’t want to comply, don’t. You just don’t get to extract EU data

And didn’t their president recently step down because of fraud with research data or something?

Things are going great over there.

Him smashing up those weak tray tables.. yeah that would be great