If they are held accountable they'll get a slap on the wrist and pay a fine to the government or maybe throw a few more pennies at a class action, but none of it will come close to the amount they made in profit and it won't prevent meta or Kenyan contractors from having gotten off on your nudes.
This kind of tech could be used for a lot of really good and useful things, but it's facebook so it will mainly be used to screw over blind people and anyone else who uses them by violating their privacy, the privacy of everyone in view of them, and all while shoving ads at the users. Facebook is toxic.
Yeah, this is something you 100% should have expected. This could not be more on brand for facebook. Even if someone told me facebook wasn't using their glasses to invade the privacy of their users I wouldn't believe them. Compromising people's privacy for profit is what facebook does. Violating the trust of their users is basically all facebook has ever done.
I can't recommend being intentionally rude so that you can get practice dealing with people who are pissed off at you. Learning how to tell when it's a bad time to strike up a conversation with a stranger will be a much greater benefit for anyone looking to meet women or even for someone just working on being friendlier/more social. There'll be no shortage of opportunities to learn how to deal with rejection even without being a pest.
As I understand, GP is recommending that folks take a risk that their drumming up a conversation might be unwelcome if they are unsure. They're not advocating for folks to harass people who are in no position to chat or who have stated as much.
People can't read minds, so I think we owe grace to the folks around us if they misread a situation and respect your wishes when you let them know that it's you're unwilling or unable to chat at the moment.
While it's great to learn social cues, it's often impossible to know whether someone is in the mood to chat.
> Google definitely does not want you to have this valuable capability. If you stop looking things up, then you won't be looking at their search engine, their ads, and their recommendation algorithms.
Google is very interested in knowing about whatever you're interested in, and in knowing when, how often, and for how long you're interested in those things. In addition to looking at their search engine, their ads, and their recommendations, you're also feeding them more and more data about you.
My problem with Kagi is that it requires a login to be useful meaning that it always knows exactly who you are and can associate your searches to your identity. If you don't log into google they can only guess (although honestly they'll probably guess accurately given enough search data).
I think I remember Kagi was working on a way to allow users to create an anonymous account and if so I'll have to take another look at them.
FWIW, I'm also a paid Kagi user and would like very much if I could use it with SearXNG or potentially have it include my own self-hosted services as part of my personal search results.
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