In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    The phone book was not a big tech corporation, which is why it was a suitable place to have your phone number.

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      1 year ago

      It was owned by a big tech corporation, Ma Bell. And then it got broken up and there were just a bunch of smaller monopolies printing phone books.

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        1 year ago

        I didnt know that… thank you, stranger.

        Big tech monopolies involved in everything, im just tired of it.

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          1 year ago

          One of the advantages(?) of being old is you remember all the previous times corporations have fucked us over in various ways. The phone company monopoly which turned into mini-monopolies was just one more example unfortunately. At least that one’s over now.

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            1 year ago

            In the current age we don’t even have to be that old to have been screwed by big corporations more than once. I guess anyone in their 20s would have by now gone through it at least thrice.

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        1 year ago

        So what you’re saying is decentralization killed the phone book so Meta is actually saving us!? /s