This is accurate. I’ve been flashing phones with custom ROMs for years now, and doing it through the browser makes it both dead easy and pretty safe. You no longer need to be a tech shaman to do it. Just follow the instructions and you’re good.

Also, if you don’t like it, you can always go back to stock Android (i.e. what was installed before you started tinkering). It’s pretty painless. So roll up your sleeves and explore!

they actually look at it and want it better-targeted.

I don’t think so. The author is being a little tongue in cheek, mocking big tech: “if you’re monitoring everything, how come your ads still suck?”

Slightly OT: I’m really tired of this whole “I want relevant ads” thing. Typically it comes from media illiterate people who cannot tell apart information and manipulation…

Couldn’t agree more. I’m currently on the Pixel 6a, and in spite of having perfectly average-sized hands, I feel its 6.1" display is unwieldy. 6.8" is just bonkers.

Personally, I already balked at the size of the screen (~6.8"). The ridiculous price is just the final nail in the coffin.

True. He has already started the fingerpointing, blaming the candidates and thus offloading his responsibility for these results to them.

But where before he would have been met with pure, cultish sycophancy, this time around, he’ll face resistance, and fingers pointing back at him. Republicans have seen now that being aligned or just associated with Trump is absolutely toxic and will inevitably lose them seats. Thus, the closer we get to 2028, they will increasingly shun, undermine or even openly oppose him, which will hurt his ego bigly. I’ll be there for that, schadenfreude cranked up to 11, gleefully watching on as he goes through his own, personal, well-deserved hell.

Last night saw his party and his ego massacred bigly. Let the man grieve, alright? He deserves it, along with everything that’s coming to him now.

Ego and stupid money.

I’m looking forward to “running from the country”.

I think the question is rather: why the fuck would you connect these things to the internet?

Do not threaten me schools with a good time!

If it really is that smart, perhaps it could explain to Sam the difference between a peer reviewed breakthrough and a product launch.

911, I’d like to report a murder.

“Oligopoly company that came late to the party warns of risks of oligopolies (that affect it)”

When companies can effectively buy their way out of the courts, they just consider this the cost of doing business, and will continue to hurt millions of people who do not have the means to sue them.

c/Europe

laughs about

Trump

Here’s your relevance. Is it highly relevant? No, it’s not. But particularly in times where paedo fascists seem to dominate every feed, it’s good to have a little laugh sometimes to remind ourselves that all this doomscrolling isn’t healthy. That, while despicable, these people are not evil itself. That they’re pathetic little parasites that will, eventually, be removed.

As long as under-educated people are on the drip feed of oligarch-owned media (be they “social” or not), they’ll run into whichever direction the algorithm or the editors push them.

AfD may be cosplaying “countrymen” and “nationalists”, but large parts are just Russian assets. They don’t think; they just cash in, all the while decrying that the “corrupt elites” are betraying the interests of the country. It’s mindblowing that people fall for this shit. But they do.

I know you’re being sarcastic. But for anyone coming here with a damaged irony sensor: no. Setting up a VPN comes at zero software costs (it’s all open source software, unless you’re keen on getting ripped off by some proprietary product) and a reasonably low cost in man hours for setting it up (we’re talking single-digit to low double-digit hours here).

Yeah. And VPN connections exist so maintenance and monitoring can take place without direct exposure. But alas…

It sure did look like that from the layout, but I thought it wise to hold back judgement on the source, given that I only had Firefox’ auto-translation, which can be very rough.

My thoughts exactly. There’s no real article behind that ad.nl link. Then there’s this loosely related link to the GOS mastodon post. And then there’s the broad claim in the title, which, unless OP can provide proper evidence, is entirely made-up bullshit. I use downvotes very sparingly here on Lemmy, but this disinformation piece deserves all the red it gets.