It should be renamed to “ad media”. At least everything that isn’t in the fediverse. It’s getting harder and harder to find anything you are looking for in any web based service nowadays.
I’m not even that opposed to ad revenue as a supplement for costs. But these companies are so far into the ad revenue game that they seem to have forgotten why people used their service in the first place.
I think it’s best to read the actual docs published by the research when available. News tells some, but I have seen it sensationalized a few times, where it only affects x kernel with y module before update z.
That being said, these are seemingly getting more and more frequent as previously noted.
I guess you are right. The staggering thing for me is the shear apathy required to do what they are doing. It’s revolting and frankly terrifying, but fascinating.
There is a yet to be diagnosed mental illness involved here, for so many people to so callously trumpet and parade toward things that actively and directly hurt them as well, just to prove some imaginary point.
It’s like psychopathy mixed with a side of Stockholm flavoured bias soup.
I mean. You have to give it to them. They are really going all in on destroying anything that actually made America great.
I’m not sure if that was the original goal, or even the intent now, but even with how terrible this news is, if the goal is to systematically dismantle a country, these guys are very very good at it.
My self hosting journey is limited mostly by time. When I have it, I try out new setups or tweak my current one. Otherwise it’s just lower end maintenance and updates.
The last time I had ample time I managed to get a double WireGuard (both in and out) working, so that’s something I suppose.
I can’t see anything disagreeable in this summary from my own experience so far though. Great stuff!
I feel like this should be a quarterly post. Really liking all these setups.
Advertisers need to be able to fingerprint you based on a combined measurement of the metrics you speak of. They aren’t interested in you per se, but you as a statistic, they are very interested in.
Advertisers are willing to pay more for accurate data.
Removing enough of these metrics to muddle the fingerprinting process would be bad business for everyone, so they all ride the line of privacy vs. profitability hoping we don’t notice.
I mean, that’s what I just came up with in my head in the moment anyways.
Now, off to forget I ever posted this!!